Not long after defensive tackle Bryan Bresee went down with a knee injury came word that the Saints feared a torn ACL. Saints coach Kellen Moore appeared on WWL Radio on Wednesday afternoon and confirmed that the initial diagnosis didn\u2019t deliver good news.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one kind of ran into each other; no one fell on anyone,\u201d Moore said. \u201cIt was just kind of a goofy deal where obviously something unfortunately happened and so it took a little bit, I think, for him to realize what it felt like. It felt like a little bit of something and then once they checked it out, obviously we\u2019ll continue to finalize all that, but it doesn\u2019t look great<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n If the MRI confirms Bresee tore his ACL, his season will end on injured reserve.<\/p>\n The Saints have Davon Godchaux, Nathan Shepherd, rookie Christen Miller, Vernon Broughton and John Ridgeway, among others, at the position.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the cycle of the NFL and in an unfortunate but opportunistic way,\u201d Moore said. \u201cGuys unfortunately go through things and they don\u2019t become available, and it\u2019s the opportunity for someone else to step up and take advantage. . . . And so if Bryan is out for a while, certainly, we\u2019re going to expect a lot of these other guys to take the next step.\u201d<\/p>\n The Saints exercised Bresee\u2019s fifth-year option this offseason, so he is under contract for next season.<\/p>\n New Orleans made Bresee a first-round pick in 2023, and he has totaled 86 tackles, 19 tackles for loss, 14.5 sacks, and two forced fumbles in 49 career games. He started all 15 games he played in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not long after defensive tackle Bryan Bresee went down with a knee injury came word that the Saints…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-793020","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\/793020","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=793020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}