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After Tuesday's knee injury to Victor Butler, Wilson's chief competition for the starting strongside outside linebacker position, Wilson might finally get the opportunity to live up to his own lofty expectations.

Unless the Saints change course and elect to use some of their $5.1 million in salary cap space to sign a player in a less-than-stellar remaining free-agent class, Wilson, a backup the past two seasons, appears to be the winner of outside linebacker position by default.

Although Butler had recently been taking the most snaps with the first-team defense, the competition between Wilson and Butler figured to play out through training camp, with the loser of the battle likely still getting plenty of playing time in the exotic packages of new defensive coordinator Rob Ryan.

Butler, who played under Ryan the two previous seasons in Dallas, was one of the Saints' key offseason acquisitions and was expected to ease the defense's learning curve as it transitioned from a 4-3 scheme to a 3-4 alignment.





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