{"id":815807,"date":"2026-08-16T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815807\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T19:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:34:11","slug":"zach-wilson-i-would-love-to-be-the-no-2-qb-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815807\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Wilson: I would love to be the No. 2 QB in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyler Shough did not play any quarterback for the Saints on Saturday, but the two players in contention to be his backup both saw action against the Jaguars. <\/p>\n

Spencer Rattler started the game and went 8-of-11 for 42 yards while losing a fumble on one of the two sacks he took. The team\u2019s opening drive ended with a touchdown, but it started on the Jacksonville 9-yard-line and ended after one Audric Estime run. The Saints also kicked a field goal while Rattler was in the game. <\/p>\n

Zach Wilson replaced Rattler and led two scoring drives in the second quarter. They moved the ball again in the third with Wilson at the helm, but a missed field goal kept the Saints from putting more points on the board. Wilson finished the day 11-of-16 for 145 yards and a touchdown. After the game, Wilson was asked if he thinks he made a case for jumping ahead of Rattler on the depth chart. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think about it like that<\/a>,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cObviously I\u2019m here to compete. I would love to be the two, I would love to find my way up there. That\u2019s why I chose to come here, to have an opportunity to compete, but it\u2019s out of my control. . . . I\u2019m still young, but I feel like I\u2019ve been able to play in a lot of games and see a lot of different things, and so I feel like it\u2019s been able to slow down a little bit for me. Being able to use that to my advantage and just see how good I can be and, at the end of the day, whatever happens happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Head coach Kellen Moore didn\u2019t commit to any changes to how the quarterback reps are doled out in practice and said he thought Rattler did some positive things, but a repeat of Saturday\u2019s outing in the team\u2019s next preseason game could lead to a change in plans for the 53-man roster in New Orleans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyler Shough did not play any quarterback for the Saints on Saturday, but the two players in contention…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-815807","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\/815807","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=815807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}