New Orleans Saints: 5 starting position battles to watch out for

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JANUARY 05: Janoris Jenkins #20 of the New Orleans Saints forces a fumble on Adam Thielen #19 of the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Wild Card Playoff game at Mercedes Benz Superdome on January 05, 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images) /

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The New Orleans Saints have amazing talent at almost every position. However, there are bound to be some people fighting to keep their starting spot.

The New Orleans Saints added quite a bit of talent to their roster of the offseason. They have already filled most of their holes and strengthened the position that was lacking depth on the roster for the coming year.

It started out with free agency and the Saints re-signing Drew Brees and Andrus Peat. They also went out and grabbed ex-49er wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders and ex-Eagle Malcolm Jenkins to strengthen and replace other key players.

The team kept it going strong into the NFL Draft where they went with Cesar Ruiz with the No. 24 overall pick. They also made several trades to move up into the third round twice and select Zach Baun and Adam Trautman.

However, with a team loaded with talent comes position battles.

No matter how much talent you have, you can only start 11 on either side of the ball at a time, obviously. Therefore, some players are going to have to fight for that starting spot. Here are five of them.

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