New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis visits the team bench before the Saints game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
Advocate staff photo by SCOTT THRELKELDINDIANAPOLIS — The NFL scouting combine is only partly about the NFL Draft.
With the entire league, essentially, together in downtown Indianapolis, teams meet with agents, woo free agents who were released by their teams and work on trades, like the one that will send Robert Quinn from the Rams to the Dolphins.
The New Orleans Saints have spent the week getting a good idea where their own free agents sit heading into the start of the league year on March 14.