The New Orleans Saints once again couldn’t come out on top, falling 23-3 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 8 of the 2025 NFL season at Caesars Superdome. This week, we’re revisiting one of the biggest offseason overreactions—one that’s looking less and less true by the week:

The Saints overpaid for Chase Young.

This offseason, New Orleans inked the 2020 second overall pick to a three-year, $51 million deal worth up to $57 million, with $33 million guaranteed—a move that didn’t exactly garner rave reviews at the time.

Against Tampa Bay on Sunday, Young turned in another dominant performance since returning from his calf injury three weeks ago, logging his fifth career multi-sack game. He recorded three total pressures, three stops, two sacks and one tackle, while also forcing and recov

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