LKelley67

Weatherford to the Saints — Terre Haute North grad Steve Weatherford, who had entered the draft ranked as one of the top five players at the punting position, was not selected but agreed to a free agent contract with the New Orleans Saints on Sunday evening.

Weatherford’s decision to sign with the Saints was helped by the fact that the team’s new assistant special teams coach, Greg McMahon, had been the special teams coach at Illinois. Former Indiana State assistant coach Sean Payton, now the head coach at New Orleans, had also talked to the former Illini kicker.

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LKelley67

School record holder for career punting average
• School record holder for season punting average
• School track and field record holder in the heptathlon
• 2004 Ray Guy Semifinalist
• 2004 First-Team All-Big Ten
• Preseason Third-Team All-America by Athlon
• Honorable Mention All-America by Street & Smith
• Rated the No. 3 Punter by Lindy's
• Preseason Ray Guy Award Candidate
• Preseason Second-Team All-Big Ten by Athlon
• Preseason Second-Team All-Big Ten by Lindy's
• Preseason Second-Team All-Big Ten by collegefootballnews.com
• Rated the No. 6 Punter by The Sporting News

2005: Has 11 career punts of 60 yards or better and 51 punts of 50 yards or better...Ranks fifth on the career punting yardage list with 8,286 yards...Only nine of his 29 kickoffs have been returned... Has 16 punts inside the 20-yardline ...Had six punts against Purdue including a 70 yarder and two inside the 20 yardline...Had a career-high ten punts, two of which were 60 or more yards against Ohio State...Had four punts against Wisconsin including one placed inside the twenty yardline...Set career-high in yardage with 452 yards on nine punts against PSU...Also, had a career high five punts of 50 or more yards in that game...His 50.2 yard average is sixth on the Illinois single game list... Had seven punts for 293 yards, three of which were inside the 20-yardline and a long of 66 against Indiana ... Punted five times for 237 yards, a 45.4 average with one inside the 20-yardline against Iowa ... Two punts landed inside the 20-yard line and two of his four kickoffs were touchbacks against MSU ... Punted seven times for 292 yards, a 41.7 average and had two punts inside the 20 yardline vs. Cal.

saintswhodi

Is he gonna be our kicker or kickoff man? Mitch Berger is a pro bowler.

ScottyRo

He's going to be cut at the end of camp.

LKelley67

sounds like a decent competitor for a camp body anyway