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Saints training camp preview: Three players headline group entering contract years

Joel A. Erickson

A contract year can bring the best out of a player.

Facing the uncertainty of free agency and an opportunity to play into a big deal, some players dig deep and find more in themselves than they ever have before. Others struggle to deal with the pressure

New Orleans has 17 players on the roster who will be unrestricted free agents after the 2015 season, according to OvertheCap.com. Out of that group, three Saints fit the prototype of a player entering a true contract year, a chance for a young player to seal his next contract.

With that in mind, The Advocate continues its series leading up to training camp by taking a look at those three players...

Source: Saints training camp preview: Three players headline group entering contract years | Latest Sports | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, Louisiana

DL Akiem Hicks, DB Rafael Bush, WR Nick Toon must step up this season...

Bush and Toon could quickly find themselves on the bubble...

It's not that my way is the right way, I just make the right way my way...

hagan714

DL Akiem Hicks could cash in and wll be the FA must sign in 2016

DB Rafael Bush is already over paid. but he has the saints by the per-verbals because of the question marks still surrounding the safety position, I still see him as a SS not a FS. Could price himself out the door.

WR Nick Toon - still waiting

as for the others FA i do not see a big to do about that list

2017 is the year baby. big things will be happening. There maybe be a few moves in 2015 and 2016 to help set up 2017. that is what i am keeping an eye out for.

"We may have lost the game, but you'll be hurting tomorrow." Doug Atkins