A shortened summer without minicamps, organized team activities, and a full preseason has meant less practice time for rookies, so the New Orleans Saints are doing what they can to grease the runway for first-year players.
That apparently includes a position switch for seventh-round draft pick Tommy Stevens, a prospect out of Mississippi State. Before that, he was coached by Joe Brady at Penn State, where the one-time Saints assistant started putting together a versatile playbook that Taysom Hill would eventually make famous.
Back in April’s draft, Brady nearly recruited Stevens to join him with the Carolina Panthers.