{"id":781797,"date":"2026-02-28T08:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/781797\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:53:29","slug":"saints-qb-tyler-shough-loves-louisville-wr-chris-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/781797\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints QB Tyler Shough loves Louisville WR Chris Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 27, 2026, 1:13 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Not everyone in attendance at the NFL Combine is there to run drills and be timed in the 40-yard dash. Former Louisville wide receiver Chris Bell is still recovering from a knee injury, but he&#8217;s using this time to meet with teams and go through medical checks to help fill out his scouting report. He was projected to be a first-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft <a href=\"http:\/\/saintswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/saints\/2025\/12\/11\/2026-nfl-draft-chris-bell-knee-injury-tyler-shough-saints-news\/87711176007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">before tearing his ACL in November<\/a>. One big supporter in his corner? <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-orleans-saints\/350\" data-autotag=\"84b23fc0-f769-4d65-9d38-018c62e4efd7\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New Orleans Saints<\/a> quarterback Tyler Shough. Bell spoke about the possibility of teaming up with his old QB at the combine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Man it would be great, man. I&#8217;ve been talking to Tyler Shough since this process started,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AryePulliNFL\/status\/2027416160648515678?s=20\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bell told Arye Pulli for Saints on SI<\/a>. &#8220;He said he&#8217;s been telling the Saints about me, he hope they get me. He said they need somebody like me so it would be great to reunite with Tyler Shough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Bell added that he&#8217;s been cleared to begin running on his surgically-repaired knee next week, and his goal is tot be ready for training camp in July for whichever team drafts him. Maybe that&#8217;s the Saints. He&#8217;s a big target at 6-foot-2 and 220 pounds, with obvious playmaking ability &#8212; last season he caught 72 passes for 917 yards and six touchdowns. If he can get healthy and pick up where he left off as a physical target who can win on passes deep downfield, he could be a big pickup for New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 27, 2026, 1:13 p.m. CT Not everyone in attendance at the NFL Combine is there to run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[95878,7,896,55,2572,2571,6,397,15505,96128,95882,96027,96131,96129,95895,96684,95899,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-781797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanssaints","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-saints","16":"tag-sstssportsnflsaints","17":"tag-sstsnsaints","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagcollege-sports","20":"tag-tagnew-orleans","21":"tag-tagnew-orleans-saints","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagnfl-scouting-combine","24":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116147415013942978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781797","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=781797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}