talking to reporters<\/a>, Tuten said that he expects the experience gained last year to pay dividends in 2026.<\/p>\n“So, the whole entire offseason, chatting with coach, getting some tips and feedback, and then also doing a self-evaluation of myself for what I did right, and what I need to improve on,” Tuten said. “And ultimately, it begins here. I think last year, I really couldn’t play fast and free like I’m used to, because I’m thinking a lot and attacking a new playbook. But here, I got a year under the playbook, so I can go out there and be myself and be fast, and play how I know I can play.”<\/p>\n
Etienne is now in New Orleans, and the only real addition in the backfield was veteran Chris Rodriguez Jr., who has missed most of the offseason after foot surgery.<\/p>\n
The door is open for Tuten to take hold of the lead role in Liam Coen’s offense in Jacksonville. It’s an offense that ranked just outside the top-10 in yards per game and sixth in points per game. And a role that Etienne turned into just under 1,400 total yards in 2025.<\/p>\n
For Tuten, that would most assuredly constitute a breakout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In case you haven’t noticed, every back listed here is entering his second season. Of the group, Bhayshul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-795575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}