{"id":876679,"date":"2026-08-30T05:46:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876679\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T05:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:46:35","slug":"report-saints-will-keep-spencer-rattler-despite-trade-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876679\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Saints will keep Spencer Rattler despite trade interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saints waived fourth quarterback Hunter Dekkers on Saturday, leaving Spencer Rattler and Zach Wilson behind Tyler Shough.<\/p>\n<p>The team received trade interest in Rattler, but plans to keep him, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>If the Saints do indeed keep three quarterbacks on their roster, the question then becomes who will serve as the backup on game day.<\/p>\n<p>Rattler, a fifth-round pick in 2024, competed for the starting job a year ago and ended up starting the first eight games of the season. The Saints went 1-7, and Shough replaced him.\\<\/p>\n<p>In two seasons, Rattler has passed for 2,903 yards with 12 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. <\/p>\n<p>He was 30-of-44 for 262 yards with an interception in three preseason games. Rattler also ran for 30 yards and a touchdown on seven carries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saints waived fourth quarterback Hunter Dekkers on Saturday, leaving Spencer Rattler and Zach Wilson behind Tyler Shough.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-876679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}