NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- What German-born Saints linebacker Kasim Edebali jokingly refers to as ''Plan B'' seems to be working out rather well.

A decade ago, Edebali was a teenage quarterback with the Hamburg Huskies, an American football team in a youth league in northern Germany. He hoped he might become good enough to one day play for the hometown Sea Devils in NFL Europe.

''I went to every game. NFL Europe was the biggest stage you could imagine,'' Edebali recalled. ''You had 20,000 to 30,000 people, and that's a lot for football in Germany.'"

But NFL Europe went out of business in 2007, and Edebali decided he needed to leave home to see how far he could go in the sport he loved.

Not only has the move led to a promising first couple years in the NFL, but has also put him in touch with his American father, who is a former serviceman, and half-siblings he never knew growing up.

''He was determined to take his very best shot and it paid off for him,'' said John Lyons, who was Edebali's coach when he enrolled in Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire as an international exchange student for his junior and senior years of high school.

Edebali parlayed his American high school experience into a scholarship at Boston College, then signed with New Orleans as an undrafted free agent in 2014.

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Not a tremendously well written piece but he has an interesting story.
5 sacks so far this year and that is pretty good for a backup.