The 2022 Saints still look like a typical Sean Payton team – a decent amount of White players compared to many other teams, but no one to root for other than second year linebacker Pete Werner, and Taysom Hill if he ever gets meaningful snaps.
The new head man is Dennis Allen. Considering he was the head coach of the ultra-Caste Oakland Raiders from 2012 to ’14, the Saints will likely become even more Caste as he puts his stamp on them.
This year’s squad has 4 White starters, and that’s being generous as fullback Adam Prentice is primarily a WSTD who in his first NFL season last year had all of three receptions and three rushes. He has one catch for two yards so far in 2022.
New Orleans is a rarity in currently starting two Whites at offensive tackle – James Hurst at LT and the excellent Ryan Ramczyk at RT. Trevor Penning, the team’s first round draft pick this year, is also a tackle and likely will be a great one but is currently on IR for a minimum of the first four games of the ’22 campaign.
Pete Werner, last year’s second round draft pick out of Ohio State, is starting this year and has immediately become a tackling machine, which always surprises DWFs while shocking CFers when White LBs aren’t prolific producers. Werner already has 21 combined tackles after two games despite playing just 81% of the team’s defensive snaps.
Taysom Hill is now a “tight end,” the latest chapter in a long-running book on how not to best utilize his running, receiving and passing abilities. If only Taysom had been born Black, he would have been celebrated and given every opportunity to be one of those “revolutionaries” at the quarterback position who somehow rarely meet expectations.
Speaking of expectations, they were high that Adam Trautman would be another star White tight end, but it hasn't happened to this point and Trautman has been demoted to second string to start 2022.
There’s a sprinkling of White backups on defense, most notably Daniel Sorensen, the very talented safety who made numerous big plays while with Kansas City but was always despised by most DWFs, which happens to every White safety other than the few that are instant superstars from the get-go.
LT: James Hurst, Landon Young
RG: Calvin Throckmorton
RT: Ryan Ramczyk
TE: Adam Trautman, Taysom Hill, Nick Vannett
FB: Adam Prentice
QB: Andy Dalton
OLB: Pete Werner, Kaden Elliss
MLB: Chase Hansen
FS: Daniel Sorensen
Total Number of White Starters: 4
Total Number of White players on 53 man roster: 16
Grade: F+
P: Blake Gillikin
PK: Will Lutz
LS: Zach Wood
Practice squad: QB Jake Luton, TE J. P. Holtz, TE Lucas Krull
IR: G Forrest Lamp in addition to Penning
The new head man is Dennis Allen. Considering he was the head coach of the ultra-Caste Oakland Raiders from 2012 to ’14, the Saints will likely become even more Caste as he puts his stamp on them.
This year’s squad has 4 White starters, and that’s being generous as fullback Adam Prentice is primarily a WSTD who in his first NFL season last year had all of three receptions and three rushes. He has one catch for two yards so far in 2022.
New Orleans is a rarity in currently starting two Whites at offensive tackle – James Hurst at LT and the excellent Ryan Ramczyk at RT. Trevor Penning, the team’s first round draft pick this year, is also a tackle and likely will be a great one but is currently on IR for a minimum of the first four games of the ’22 campaign.
Pete Werner, last year’s second round draft pick out of Ohio State, is starting this year and has immediately become a tackling machine, which always surprises DWFs while shocking CFers when White LBs aren’t prolific producers. Werner already has 21 combined tackles after two games despite playing just 81% of the team’s defensive snaps.
Taysom Hill is now a “tight end,” the latest chapter in a long-running book on how not to best utilize his running, receiving and passing abilities. If only Taysom had been born Black, he would have been celebrated and given every opportunity to be one of those “revolutionaries” at the quarterback position who somehow rarely meet expectations.
Speaking of expectations, they were high that Adam Trautman would be another star White tight end, but it hasn't happened to this point and Trautman has been demoted to second string to start 2022.
There’s a sprinkling of White backups on defense, most notably Daniel Sorensen, the very talented safety who made numerous big plays while with Kansas City but was always despised by most DWFs, which happens to every White safety other than the few that are instant superstars from the get-go.
LT: James Hurst, Landon Young
RG: Calvin Throckmorton
RT: Ryan Ramczyk
TE: Adam Trautman, Taysom Hill, Nick Vannett
FB: Adam Prentice
QB: Andy Dalton
OLB: Pete Werner, Kaden Elliss
MLB: Chase Hansen
FS: Daniel Sorensen
Total Number of White Starters: 4
Total Number of White players on 53 man roster: 16
Grade: F+
P: Blake Gillikin
PK: Will Lutz
LS: Zach Wood
Practice squad: QB Jake Luton, TE J. P. Holtz, TE Lucas Krull
IR: G Forrest Lamp in addition to Penning
