{"id":783471,"date":"2026-03-01T02:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/783471\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T02:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:02:24","slug":"b-r-says-packers-wr-romeo-doubs-is-perfect-free-agency-fit-for-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/783471\/","title":{"rendered":"B\/R says Packers WR Romeo Doubs is perfect free agency fit for Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 28, 2026, 4:14 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">If you could wave a magic wand and get any NFL player on the <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>, who would you pick? Failing that, if you could look at the pool of free agents expected to change teams in March, who do you want the most? <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25399951-perfect-2026-free-agent-signing-every-nfl-team\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bleacher Report&#8217;s Alex Ballentine highlighted<\/a> a perfect free agent pickup for all 32 teams, including the Saints. And he chose a new tag-team partner for Chris Olave as an ideal fit in the Saints receiving corps: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/green-bay-packers\/335\" data-autotag=\"2b76aec5-0d77-4545-9a2a-f864de5488eb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> wideout Romeo Doubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Romeo Doubs should be looking for a place where he can play a bigger role in free agency. The Saints should be looking for a reliable No. 2 who can play alongside Chris Olave. It&#8217;s a hand-in-glove fit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Doubs isn&#8217;t the most electric receiver, but he&#8217;s a dependable downfield target who wins more contested catches than his frame would tell you. He&#8217;s the kind of receiver who could give Tyler Shough another dependable weapon in an offense that needs them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Doubs was thrown to 320 times in 59 games over four years with Green Bay; that&#8217;s an average of 5.4 targets per game. There&#8217;s a lot of qualifiers here so stay with us. In eight games with Tyler Shough starting and Olave available (he missed the season finale due to a blood clot scare), non-Olave wide receivers totaled just 60 targets. That comes up to 7.5 targets per game. Doubs wouldn&#8217;t get all of those passes but he would carve out enough of them to make the move worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But is a wide receiver really the perfect move for the Saints? The talent pool for receivers is deeper than left guards, and if New Orleans can&#8217;t get the offensive line cleaned up to protect Shough, they won&#8217;t be hosting a playoff game. Full stop. And getting a finished product in free agency would be their easiest path towards that goal. Doubs would be a big upgrade over many of the games already in their receiving corps. That doesn&#8217;t mean signing a receiver is the perfect move the Saints can make.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:6|\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. 28, 2026, 4:14 p.m. CT If you could wave a magic wand and get any NFL player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[95878,7,41,345,2514,2513,6,428,15505,96128,95882,97125,95976,95896,96129,95888,95895,95906,99562,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-783471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-packers","16":"tag-sstssportsnflsaints","17":"tag-sstsnsaints","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagchris-olave","20":"tag-taggreen-bay-packers","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnew-orleans-saints","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagnfl-hub","25":"tag-tagoverall-positive","26":"tag-tagromeo-doubs","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116151461064144161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783471","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=783471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}