{"id":14697,"date":"2017-03-09T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=14697"},"modified":"2017-03-09T15:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:22:21","slug":"larry-warford-signs-new-orleans-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/03\/09\/larry-warford-signs-new-orleans-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Larry Warford to Sign With New Orleans Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WarfLa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Larry Warford<\/strong><\/a> has reportedly agreed to a contract with the New Orleans Saints. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Warford spent the first four seasons of his career as\u00a0member of the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Source: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saints?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Saints<\/a> are signing G Larry Warford to beef up their OL. Was a big area of focus for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/839932870831525889\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Report: Larry Warford to Sign With New Orleans Saints<\/h2>\n<p>The fourth year offensive guard\u00a0has played with the Detroit Lions since he was drafted in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Warford has played all of his four pro seasons for the Detroit Lions protecting superstar quarterback <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/S\/StafMa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matthew Stafford<\/a><\/strong>. At right guard, Warford and crew allowed 37 sacks in 2016, down from the two previous seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Warford has shown consistent improvement on the line in his tenure with Detroit. His play has been limited on the field in his four-year career. He played only one full season, his rookie year. In 2016, Warford played 15 of the 16 regular season games in 2016, missing Week Six due to a non-football related injury to his hip.<\/p>\n<p>Warford led the team in 2016 in both pass blocking and run blocking. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballfocus.com\/pro-ranking-all-32-nfl-offensive-lines-this-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pro Football Focus ranked Detroit&#8217;s line at number 19<\/a>. The ranking is due in large part to Warford and right tackle <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/R\/ReifRi00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Riley Reiff<\/a><\/strong>, also a 2016 free agent.<\/p>\n<p>A San Diego native, Warford\u00a0moved to Kentucky for high school and went to college at the University of Kentucky. There he was named second-team All SEC for 2010, 2011, and 2012. He was also named PFF&#8217;s 2013 rookie of the year, which raised his stock enough to be picked up by Detroit in the third round of the 2013 draft. For an offensive lineman, that&#8217;s not a bad place to go.<\/p>\n<p>As the offensive line goes, it&#8217;s hard to calculate stats. It&#8217;s hard even finding anything other than games played and games started. Larry Warford has been consistent in helping his team protect Stafford. Considering the decrease in sacks, Warford and Detroit&#8217;s offensive line is doing a better job year to year. Game film is a big indicator of\u00a0Larry Warford&#8217;s worth to a team. He proves it by protecting the quarterback, his running backs, and blocking his way downfield.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/460175756\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; display: inline-block; position: absolute;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/460175756?et=_QE7yIa_SLlYmEHbOcaiZw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=eEnKKr1uPn3mM0EiH0Tq1DWajGQYy-YSB2iY3ICbBRM=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Warford has shown promise during four years protecting Matthew Stafford, and 2016 proved to be a bounce back season for the 2013 third rounder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1911,"featured_media":14753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,28],"tags":[43,61,1842,309,40],"class_list":["post-14697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-saints","tag-detroit-lions","tag-football","tag-larry-warford","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"David McCaffery","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}