“If one guy can do a couple different jobs, it makes him more valuable,” said Saints defensive line coach Ryan Nielsen. “We can start moving him around, different fronts, more things we can do on defense.”

The qualifier that must come at this point is that it is early and Biegel has done none of this while wearing pads yet, but Nielsen said the early returns have been positive.

Nielsen likes the way Biegel sets the edge, and he likes the length of his 6-foot-3 frame and the toughness Biegel brings.

He called back to Biegel’s time at Wisconsin, where he recorded 14 sacks in his last three years, as part of the reason the Saints wanted to get a look at him on the edge.

“He’s got some rush ability to him,” Nielsen said. “There’s something there. He’s not in pads, but we’ll continue this through camp, and you will see the progression after this break when we get back.”