{"id":771292,"date":"2026-02-23T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/771292\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:21:15","slug":"saints-turn-focus-to-nfl-combine-with-no-8-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/771292\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints turn focus to NFL Combine with No. 8 pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were paying close attention to the way the New Orleans Saints built their roster in the first year of the Kellen Moore era, you might have noticed a trend. Almost like a baseball team, the Saints focused on building the strength of their roster up the middle of the field. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/the-saints-may-built-the-perimeter-of-their-roster-in-26\/article_a405d64b-f235-411e-a516-86d526f214cc.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"After building from inside out in 2025, Saints may pivot and focus on the perimeter this offseason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With all due respect to the Senior Bowl, last month&#8217;s All-Star college exhibition game didn&#8217;t have the star power that this year&#8217;s NFL scouting combine brings. Many of the event&#8217;s top prospects pulled out at the last minute \u2014 meaning that when teams descend on Indianapolis this week, they&#8217;ll finally have the chance to get an up-close look at the biggest names in the 2026 draft. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/saints-prospects-to-watch-2026-nfl-scouting-combine-draft\/article_06a8cd46-4ebe-404d-923c-05ea7ba7eeb4.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Eight players the Saints will be watching closely at the NFL combine with the No. 8 pick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you were paying close attention to the way the New Orleans Saints built their roster in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,81,2003,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-771292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-morning-break","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116120629295222435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}