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When the Saints drafted Paulson Adebo in 2021, he didn’t need to instantly become their top cornerback. That title, and those responsibilities, belonged to Marshon Lattimore — who’d already made three Pro Bowls in his first four seasons, won Defensive Rookie of the Year and had established himself as one of the premier corners in the league.

Instead, over the next four years, New Orleans kept Adebo mostly on the left side and Lattimore on the right.

“It wasn’t necessarily a preference thing or me kind of choosing it,” Adebo recalled Thursday, but rather just the result of their luxury.

In his first four NFL seasons, Adebo logged

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