Davon Godchaux confesses his addiction — and that's admirable, because healing won't begin if there's no admission of a problem. But it ends there.

There'll be no healing because Godchaux is in deep, he knows he's in deep and his solution for being in deep is to go in deeper. The near-obsession for riding horses is at fever pitch for the New Orleans Saints defensive tackle.

"I'd say (it began) probably in the last eight to 10 months," the Plaquemine, La., native said of riding. "I'm just addicted. My mentor and his family always had horses when I was growing up, but I was never into it because I was always so busy in sports camps, AAU basketball, traveling a lot. But right now, if it's not football or family I'm probably riding horses.

"They're all my family at this point because I've

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