Saints new LB Ingram hopes to be ready for training camp

After signing a one-year contract with the New Orleans Saints, former Jacksonville Jaguars linebacker Clint Ingram has been hopeful with his career future and promised that he would try his best to be ready for Saints training camp as soon as possible. Ingram is still recovering from a microfracture surgery he had last September to remove a cyst.


According to the linebacker himself, his rehabbing progress goes on well and he has been able to walk without help of crutches. He plans to watch his new teammates in Saints jerseys practicing from the sideline next week before he himself is healthy enough to go onto the field. Saying that he hoped to take part in full practice in early period of the Saints training camp, Ingram is confident that he will be available to play in all the 16 regular-season games.

Since the former starting linebacker Scott Fujita’s departure, the Saints had been in lack of a veteran replacing starter with excellent experience at this position. They already had young linebackers like Jonathan Casillas, Jo-Lonn Dunbar and Stanley Arnoux before Ingram’s arrival, but none of them seems competitive enough to contend for the starting job with Ingram once the veteran is fully recovered.