{"id":210813,"date":"2025-10-09T04:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/210813\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T04:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:17:09","slug":"taysom-hill-listed-as-a-qb-on-the-roster-could-serve-as-spencer-rattlers-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/210813\/","title":{"rendered":"Taysom Hill, listed as a QB on the roster, could serve as Spencer Rattler&#8217;s backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saints are looking for ways to expand Taysom Hill\u2019s role as he gets healthier, which prompted a question to Kellen Moore about whether Hill could serve as the No. 2 quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/saints-kellen-moore-taysom-hill-backup-qb\/article_20692461-931a-42a4-b819-0dd7a343a80e.html?taid=68e6e60cab028400012216cd&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Yeah, it could<\/a>,\u201d the head coach said, via Matthew Parras of nola.com. \u201cHe\u2019s done it plenty of times in his career before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Saints now list Hill as a quarterback on the roster after he was listed as a tight end the past few seasons. Hill plays multiple positions, including receiver, running back and core special teams player.<\/p>\n<p>Hill played only nine offensive snaps in Sunday\u2019s win over the Giants in his return from a knee injury that prematurely ended his 2024 season, but one of his plays was a 19-yard throw. Hill\u2019s snaps are expected to increase each week.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Tyler Shough was the backup quarterback to Spencer Rattler on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Moore said the possibility of Hill serving as the No. 2 quarterback is not a reflection of Shough\u2019s development. But he would not speculate whether the Saints could have Shough inactive on game days in the future. Moore referred to that as hypothetical \u201cmath problems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saints are looking for ways to expand Taysom Hill\u2019s role as he gets healthier, which prompted a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-210813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}