Jonathan Williams doesn’t want to spend another season sitting on the sidelines, and based on his performance in the New Orleans Saints’ first two preseason games, there’s a good chance he won’t.
Williams, who was a backup for the Buffalo Bills as a rookie in 2016, spent most of the 2017 season as an inactive player for the Saints while Mark Ingram and Alvin Kamara proved to be one of the best running back tandems in the NFL. However, with Ingram suspended for the first four games of the season, the Saints are looking for a player to help Kamara shoulder the load.
In the first preseason game last week, Williams had four carries for 26 yards, including a 4-yard touchdown. He followed that performance on Friday night by gaining 37 yards on eight carries, doing most of his damage against the Arizona Cardinals’ first-team defense.
The New Orleans Pelicans are no longer operating in anonymity.
The 2018-19 regular season schedule, which the NBA released Friday afternoon, confirms it.
New Orleans will play a franchise-record 13 games on either ESPN or TNT next season, spurred by an appearance in the second round of 2018 NBA playoffs and the superstardom of forward Anthony Davis.
It starts with an opening night road tip against the Houston Rockets on ESPN, as Davis faces reigning MVP James Harden on Oct. 17. While the Pelicans don’t have a Christmas Day game, they will play in Memphis, on TNT, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to finish a string of three consecutive games broadcast on national networks.
LSU coach Ed Orgeron said he wouldn’t comment on the arrest of one of his wide receivers during a press conference following his team’s scrimmage.
Drake Davis was arrested and booked into East Baton Rouge Parish jail Friday after allegations he beat and put his hands around the neck of his ex-girlfriend multiple times in the span of about 16 months