They didn’t realize it at the time, but the New Orleans Saints began recruiting guard Landon Turner when he was 14 years old.
Eight years later, the first-team All-American from North Carolina might be the biggest prize in the Saints’ 2016 class of undrafted free agents.
“I feel like it was meant to be, for sure,” said Turner, a native of Harrisonburg, Virginia, who visited the Saints' practice facility as a freshman in high school during the spring of 2008.
Turner and a group of about 20 high school athletes visited the Gulf South during a trip arranged by his mom and stepdad to aid with the Hurricane Katrina recovery.