Despite not being as unexpected as Carr’s departure from the Saints, Shough came a little surprise as he was selected no. 40 in total in the second round 2025 NFL draft. It was until many prophecies for the 25 -year -old player.
Graduate student in college 2018 who will be 26 years old in September, Shough is hardly among your rookie. He was once a backup of Justin Herbert in Oregon before finding his way to Texas Tech and finally Louisville. Along the way, he has dealt with countless injuries and joins the saints with a lot of question marks in his game, including his ability to come under persistence.
Shough, however, believes that his bumpy way to the NFL has a battle test for the peaks and traps that lie ahead.
“I think for myself and what I’ve been through, I’ve been with the field, I’ve been available, I’ve been MVP, I’ve been a starting team, I’ve been a copy of Herbert-throwing someone S — you will not go to faze me if we start 0-2 or I f — “This will be fine. That’s what I was excited about, the opportunity or opportunity, and I think going into it, I have to keep getting to know the guys; as I said earlier I’m still a newcomer. I am perhaps older, but I have to earn all respect and do my job.”
Although he is the striker, Shough also has to earn the starting team. He competes with Spencer Rattler and Jake Haener and aims to become only another Saints Week 1 newcomer QB starting team and the first since Archie Manning in 1971.
It is an opportunity that Shough is grateful to have done.
“I think it’s only if you look back, what are you willing to sacrifice in that position?” Shough said. “If you had told me as twenty, you will be composed but you have to wait for four or five years and you are going to break the bones three times and think about not playing football again and you are going to be depressed and have all these feelings but if you continue to do so I would have done it and I did.
Not many people expected Carr to retire during this season.
Not many people expected all the complexities and turns of Shough’s college career to lead him to the door to be the saints as a newcomer, but they have done so.
He is getting involved in QB in New Orleans and dealing with the good, bad and ugly that comes with being the starting team NFL.