The New Orleans Saints had already been moving in this direction, but this weekend's game against the Giants should be the biggest opportunity yet for rookie corner Quincy Riley.

After ruling out starting outside cornerback Isaac Yiadom with a hamstring injury Friday, Riley is in line to potentially play a starting role in the New Orleans secondary.

Yiadom won the outside corner job out of training camp, but he has steadily ceded playing time to Riley as the season has progressed, and he may have been supplanted this week had the injury not happened.

After playing strictly on special teams the first two weeks, Riley played 18 defensive snaps (31.6 %) in Week 3 and 24 defensive snaps (40.7 %) last week in Buffalo.

"He's had his fair amount of opportunities the last couple of weeks

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