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Opportunity knocking for Saints veteran WR Toon

Nick Toon has never entered an NFL offseason with this much opportunity.

Buried on the depth chart for three seasons, Toon finds himself staring at a wide-open path to playing time, cleared by the offseason departures of Kenny Stills, Jimmy Graham and Robert Meacham, all as Toon enters the final season of the four-year rookie deal he signed in 2012.

By virtue of three seasons in New Orleans and a six-game stretch filling in for Brandin Cooks at the end of the 2014 season, Toon seems to have a good shot at the No. 3 role behind Cooks and Marques Colston this fall, if he can hold off a hard-charging group of young players and free agents.