With Mark Ingram suspended for the first four games of the season for the New Orleans Saints, the Saints are still looking to tab the primary back-up to 2017 Offensive Rookie of the Year Alvin Kamara.
For the first four weeks, Alvin Kamara will have a new running mate in the backfield as Mark Ingram serves his four-game suspension for violating the league’s performance-enhancing drugs policy.
According to Nick Underhill of the New Orleans Advocate, third-year ball-carrier Jonathan Williams made a push to open the season in tandem with Kamara: “As far as that battle [at running back] goes, it looks like Jonathan Williams is making a run up the depth chart.