Nearly every time that Tyler Shough went to hand off the ball in Sunday’s win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the defense in front of him would pause for just a split second to see what the New Orleans Saints quarterback was going to do.

Was it truly a simple handoff? Would the rookie take it on his own?

The Saints used the hesitation to their advantage.

“I thought Tyler having that ability to run the football obviously played a factor into it,” coach Kellen Moore said.

“It,” in this case, was a Saints run game that had one of its better outings of the season, a much-needed performance for a group that was held to under 90 yards in seven of its last eight games before beating its NFC South rival.

Shough was a “big part” of why the Saints finished with 139 rushing yards on 32 attempts

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