The New Orleans Saints entered the offseason needing to add some more firepower to the running back room and did just that by going out and signing Travis Etienne Jr. after he spent the first four seasons of his National Football League career over with the Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n
New Orleans was linked to Etienne ahead of time in rumors and speculation, but that never guarantees that a move is actually going to get done. On paper, the Saints looked like a team that would make sense for Etienne. He was one of the top running backs heading to free agency and the Saints needed a boost. But, of course, the Saints aren’t the only team that needed some running back help.<\/p>\n
The Denver Broncos are another team that was connected to running backs left and right, including Etienne. Also, the Broncos were heavily connected<\/a> to Breece Hall before the New York Jets put the franchise tag on him. The Broncos were surveying the market. With the first wave of free agency behind us, reports have surfaced painting a picture and giving a behind-the-scenes look at some of the deals that did happen, and some that didn’t. The Athletic’s Mike Sando<\/a> shared a column on Thursday featuring executives around the league “unfiltered” on free agency. <\/p>\n The Saints made a great move bringing in Travis Etienne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints entered the offseason needing to add some more firepower to the running back room…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-852114","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-new-orleans","10":"tag-new-orleans-saints","11":"tag-neworleans","12":"tag-neworleanssaints","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116343169605432930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852114","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=852114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}