Throughout the year, Devin Neal will take what he calls a “phone cleanse.”

The rookie running back for the New Orleans Saints gets off social media. He won’t answer his phone unless it’s an emergency, or his parents and coaches are trying to reach him. He’ll avoid the device as much as possible to help clear his mind.

But after the biggest play of his young career, Neal just so happened not to be participating in one of these cleanses. And even if he had been, the near-constant buzz from his device would have been too hard to ignore anyway.

“It was a lot of people, man,” Neal said.

The people in his life wanted to talk about the block. In Sunday’s loss to the Chicago Bears, Neal stood on the right side of quarterback Spencer Rattler when he noticed an unblocked Jaquan Brisker flying

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