Who was the Saints’ breakout participant vs. the Buccaneers?

The 2024 New Orleans Saints had been lastly put to relaxation in Sunday afternoon’s 27-19 defeat to the playoff-bound Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who clinched their fourth consecutive division title.

Nearly precisely a 12 months after tearing his ACL, this week’s breakout participant took benefit of accidents within the linebacker room and put collectively one of the best efficiency of his younger profession. The breakout participant from the Saints’ Week 18 loss to the Buccaneers is LB Nephi Sewell.

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The 26-year-old posted 8 whole tackles (5 solo, 2 TFLs), 2 stops, and his first profession sack, whereas his 78.1 total grade from Professional Soccer Focus was the second highest amongst Saints gamers within the finale.

Sewell was voted by his teammates because the Saints’ 2024 Ed Block Braveness Award winner for his resiliency all through his restoration from a torn anterior cruciate ligament suffered throughout final season’s New 12 months’s Eve matchup in Tampa Bay.

He’s an intriguing participant and may very well be value bringing again subsequent season with Willie Homosexual on an expiring contract and accidents posing a problem for the linebacker room behind an growing old Demario Davis.

Would you wish to see Sewell return for the 2025 marketing campaign?