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Jayrone Elliott said several teams tried to sign him this winter.

The outside linebacker and defensive end appeared in just one game with the Dallas Cowboys in 2017 before spending the majority of the season as a free agent. But, with three prior years of experience with the Green Bay Packers, teams saw a chance to add a player to spend the entire offseason competing for a role.

For Elliott, signing with the New Orleans Saints was an easy choice. Before playing at Toledo in college, Elliott went to Glenville High, the same Cleveland school where Saints wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr. and cornerbacks Marshon Lattimore and Justin Hardee went, and those three players helped convince Elliott to come to New Orleans.

"It was all about fit for me, and those three guys had a huge hand in me signing here," Elliott said. "I talked to them, and they were saying how cool the environment is here and how they take care of the guys here and how they just show love (and) how it's player-driven out here. It was just something I wanted to be a part of, and I was anxious to get back on a football team."

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Now, the Saints have four players from the same high school. Ginn played before any of the other three, but Elliott said he was a senior when Hardee was a sophomore. Lattimore wasn't on the team yet, but Elliott knew he would soon become a star at the school in a dangerous Cleveland neighborhood.

"It's pretty amazing, to be honest," Elliott said. "Obviously, as young kids, we dreamed about being in the NFL, and to have four of us on one team, it's a blessing. It's tremendous just for our community, just to show guys you can make it out of there. It was a lot of hard work, but it's just a blessing to be here."

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