I hate it more for Turner—it’s got to be a big psychological blow as much as a physical one. Hopefully he can be back for the last half, 1/4 of the season, but we’ve seen how these injuries can go, how surgeries can be botched or rehab not go right. So fingers crossed.

But it’s also a blow to the Saints, obviously. Luckily, we drafted Foskey who’s already on the roster and was a healthy scratch, so we can just dress him and add somebody else to the 53 at a position that we might need more depth at. Now, it’s obviously not great that our 2nd rounder was a healthy scratch, but he’s got the physical traits
(6’5” 265 /4.48 40) and college production (22 sacks and 7 forced fumbles his final 2 years) against high level completion. I think we’ve been asking him to play the position differently than he did at Notre Dame, and he hasn’t picked it up quite as quickly as everybody would have liked. But like Penning, the best way to speed up development is to be thrown in there and play actual NFL football.

Hopefully Granderson stays healthy and continues to play well and Foskey’s role can be limited to just spelling Carl throughout the game to keep him fresh. He’s not ready to be counted on to rush the passer at the level we need from the edge on that side, but he’s big and strong enough to at least be able to play the run and set the edge on early downs. That should be his role early—play disciplined in setting the edge and gap sound in the run game. Don’t try to do too much and get sucked up and burned on the edge for big outside runs. And as long as Granderson stays healthy, they can just gradually add things to his plate, and by the end of the year he should be a lot more well rounded than he would have been being the 5th DE who never played.