What a day for Marshon Lattimore. The Saints’ star cornerback suffered a thumb injury against the Bucs on Monday night and will need surgery (via PFT). Of course, this all came hours after he agreed to a five-year, $97.6MM extension with New Orleans. 
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Lattimore mostly played through the pain with a cast on his right hand and finished with three tackles and one pass defensed. Still, he’ll need the issue corrected before he retakes the field. For now, he’s considered week-to-week, but the Saints could consider a short-term injured reserve stint pending the outcome. That would allow Lattimore to return after three missed games and retake the field in Week 5.
Fortunately, it’s a minor injury, and Lattimore has all the fiscal security he could ever ask for. His new five-year re-up furnishes him with $97.6MM and $44MM in full guarantees, a record for defensive backs. The deal also includes $68.3MM in overall guarantees and incentives that can take him up to $100MM.
Without Lattimore, the Saints will lean on recent pickup Desmond Trufant for support.
The Saints didn’t play the Bucs nor did they play on Monday night.
I even checked to see if maybe they meant in a preseason game, saints still didn’t face the bugs. Big OOF.
Maybe this is why trade rumors are looking to hire writers
They played the Packers Sunday afternoon not the bucs on Monday night. In a rush to be ahead of the news you got easy details wrong
Right. The Saints played the Packers on Sunday. Is anything else in the story true?
Maybe this happened in the quantum realm in the NFL multiverse
What is this story’s definition of the word “guarantee”?
Damn Zach, you’re getting beat up on this one. My advice, proofread. I’d say 3 times before you hit “Publish”. Otherwise, the wolves come out.
Wow this site is really falling off. @Zach Links, can you have one of your bosses email me since you fine writers are lacking proof readers?
How can you screw up so many details and nobody catch all of them?
wow, they predicted a Monday night injury. I’m thinking of becoming a writer as part time.
Holy cow Trade Rumors. You drunk?
Lol, don’t watch football much do you?
I would think the Saints would lean on Bradley Robey and Adebo more so than trufant. Then Ken crawley should be coming back. Also cgardnerj is an underrated outside corner.
Why do you think you keep seeing posts wanting new writers?? Zach Links is by far the worst, hes gotta go!