{"id":366008,"date":"2025-12-23T18:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/366008\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:44:07","slug":"taysom-hill-fought-back-tears-discussing-what-may-have-been-his-last-game-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/366008\/","title":{"rendered":"Taysom Hill fought back tears discussing what may have been his last game in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nine seasons with the Saints, Taysom Hill is set for free agency after the season. Which means Sunday\u2019s win over the Jets, the Saints\u2019 last home game of the season, may have been his final game in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Hill grew emotional after the game as he was asked about that, fighting back tears as he reflected on his time with the Saints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife asked me that this morning and I didn\u2019t really feel any type of way this morning, but as I was driving to the stadium today, you start to think about the last nine years, and what it\u2019s meant to me and my family and this city,\u201d Hill said after the game. \u201cI think for me personally you just try to take it all in. I\u2019ve had a great experience here tonight. I don\u2019t know what the future holds for me but it was a special day for me and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hill said his whole family came for what might have been his last game as a Saint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got a lot of family here today,\u201d Hill said. \u201cMy entire family\u2019s here for the game, so it was fun to have them here and feel a lot of love and support from people around me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Hill, who has been a quarterback, running back, wide receiver, tight end and special teams contributor for the Saints, has had <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/taysom-hill-is-first-in-sb-era-with-1-000-career-passing-rushing-and-receiving-yards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a unique career<\/a>, one that has made him a popular player in New Orleans. And now he may be ready to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoments like these cause me to be reflective,\u201d Hill said. \u201cMy overall feeling is one of gratitude. This organization, this city, has been so good to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nine seasons with the Saints, Taysom Hill is set for free agency after the season. Which means&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-366008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366008","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=366008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}