{"id":338929,"date":"2025-10-28T18:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/338929\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:21:15","slug":"saints-bench-spencer-rattler-for-26-year-old-rookie-tyler-shough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/338929\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints bench Spencer Rattler for 26-year-old rookie Tyler Shough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saints have had enough of the Spencer Rattler experience.<\/p>\n<p>The team informed Rattler they were making Tyler Shough the starter going forward after a 1-7 start to the season, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>Shough, a 26-year-old rookie out of Louisville, saw his first significant playing time of the season when he replaced an ineffective Rattler during Sunday\u2019s 23-3 loss to the Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<p>Shough did not come in until late in the third quarter but still threw 30 passes, completing 17 of them, and was intercepted once while failing to lead New Orleans to any points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTyler went in there and looked the part,\u201d Saints coach Kellen Moore told reporters after the game Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.37634409;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37507933\" width=\"812\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/new-orleans-saints-quarterback-tyler-114250858.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Shough (6) warms up before a game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Caesars Superdome. \" class=\"wp-image-37507933\"  \/>Tyler Shough will be making his first NFL start on Sunday. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made some plays. The one interception was unfortunate. Gave us a chance to convert there, and so we\u2019ll obviously make that evaluation here quickly and make some decisions moving forward. But this had more to do with the whole offense just not playing well enough and hopefully trying to generate some form of a spark there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It will be a challenging first assignment for Shough with the Saints traveling to Los Angeles to take on the 5-2 Rams.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The defeat included a Rattler pick-six early in the game after he had thrown three interceptions in the previous week\u2019s loss to the Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Shough shot up draft boards after leading Louisville to a 9-4 mark last season, throwing for 3,195 yards and 23 touchdowns before impressing at the Senior Bowl.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37507923\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/looks-sideline-taken-game-tampa-114262997.jpg\" alt=\"New Orleans Saints quarterback Spencer Rattler (2) looks on from the sideline after being taken out of the game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in New Orleans.\" class=\"wp-image-37507923\"  \/>The Saints have benched Spencer Rattler after a 1-7 start to the season. AP<\/p>\n<p>The Saints took him early in the second round with the 40th pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>His meandering seven-year college career started at Oregon before transferring to Texas Tech and then finally Louisville. It was interrupted by a twice-broken collarbone and a broken fibula.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has all the traits you want in a quarterback,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/08\/sports\/tyler-shough-is-the-nfl-drafts-wild-card-thanks-to-bo-nix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one NFL scout said told The Post\u2019s Ryan Dunleavy prior to the draft<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause he\u2019s older, had three consecutive injuries and this was his first full season, he was under the radar. Otherwise, could we be having a very different [first-round] discussion?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saints have had enough of the Spencer Rattler experience. The team informed Rattler they were making Tyler&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":338930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9004,1232,53144,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-338929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-new-orleans-saints","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-spencer-rattler","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115453185138230256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}