New Orleans Saints defensive tackle, Bryan Bresee, go undergo season-ending surgery to repair torn ACL. Coach Kellen Moore tell reporters Sunday say the injury happen during first practice of training camp last week.
Bresee dey work with first unit for 11-on-11 drills when e feel im knee buckle. E no be contact injury, na like say e just dey do pass rush move. Davon Godchaux, im teammate, call am freak accident. “Hardly wasn’t even any contact. Just really was a pass rush move and he felt his knee buckle,” e yarn.
Sources tell NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo last week say dem fear say na torn ACL. Further testing confirm am.
The 24-year-old don be key player for Saints interior defensive line for three seasons. Dem pick am for first round for 2023, e don start 26 games, including 15 last season. E get 14.5 career sacks. Note say Saints just pick up the 2027 fifth-year option for im rookie contract wey worth $13.9 million.
Now wey Bresee dey out, veteran Nathan Shepherd and second-year tackle Vernon Broughton dey take first-team reps for interior. Broughton na 2025 third-round pick, e play only one game last year before hip injury carry am finish season.
Defensive end Chase Young talk say everybody need to step up. “We need some guys to step up. Bresee just went down. We’re going to need Vernon to step up. We need John Ridgeway III to step up. We need the whole interior to step up. And I have faith that they will.”
Godchaux also talk say e no be only one player go replace Bresee. “I think we all got to step up. Everybody’s the guy because D-line is a position where you do have starters, but everybody’s going to play every game. Who’s the hot hand? Some guys have their games. It’s maybe a heavy run game, maybe my game, maybe a heavy pass game. But everybody’s got to step up. Me, Vern, Shepherd, Christen Miller, depending on a lot on him, Khristian Boyd, everybody. When your number is called, you have to step up.”
Bresee don tear im left ACL before for start of 2021 season at Clemson. E come back from that one. Now e go face another recovery.
