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5 takeaways from Saints rookie minicamp: Fuaga at LT, early injury concerns, more

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By Jeff Nowak - WWL Radio Sports

The New Orleans Saints rookies got on the field in front of the media for the first time on Saturday, and there were a few surprises.

QB Spencer Rattler's arm was not one of them, but the first-round pick Taliese Fuaga lining up at left tackle certainly was.

Scroll below for five takeaways, including the performance of Rattler and Fuaga, after a day of rookie minicamp practice.

1. SPENCER RATTLER LOOKS THE PART

Everyone wants to talk about Spencer Rattler, so I won't keep you waiting: He very much looks the part. The Saints only had two QBs at this year's rookie minicamp, the other being a veteran in Kellen Mond, who was cut from the roster earlier in the week but stuck around to participate as a tryout player. His presence actually offered a pretty solid control for what we're talking about with Rattler, because between the two it was easy to discern which had starting-caliber traits, and which had a backup ceiling. The best example came late in the practice when both QBs rolled out to the left and targeted a player in the flat.

Mond dirted his ball and didn't give the receiver a chance. Rattler lobbed a nice ball into the lilliputian speedster Jermaine Jackson, who would've had room to run if not for losing his footing (something that happened frequently during the time we watched). The ball comes out of his hand with ease and there's no questioning the arm talent. That's not the end all be all of NFL quarterbacking, but it's a good place to start. He'll have plenty of questions to answer in terms of processing and how he handles pressure and adversity.

This is the first step on a long path to potentially becoming an NFL starter some day. In a few weeks one of those steps will be to compete with Jake Haener for the backup job. There wasn't a ton Rattler could do to shake confidence this weekend, and in my opinion he avoided those pitfalls. We'll see where things go from here. ...

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