{"id":187997,"date":"2024-09-02T10:05:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=187997"},"modified":"2024-09-02T10:04:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:04:15","slug":"jahcour-pearson-saints-workout-xfl-battlehawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/09\/02\/jahcour-pearson-saints-workout-xfl-battlehawks\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints Bring In XFL Star For Free Agent Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints remain busy in the leadup to the regular season, as the team has reportedly brought in XFL star wide receiver Jahcour Pearson for a free agent visit. Pearson, an Ole Miss product, led the spring league with 60 receptions for 670 receiving yards while putting himself on the NFL radar.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Source: Free agent WR Jahcour Pearson, the XFL\u2019s 2023 leader with 60 receptions and 670 receiving yards, is working out with the <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saints?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Saints<\/a> today. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O2Nkv8zChS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/O2Nkv8zChS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/1830602916362948994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Saints Bring In XFL Star Jahcour Pearson For Workout<\/h2>\n<p>Chances are, Jahcour Pearson will not end up on the Saints 53-man roster. However, he could easily earn a spot on the practice squad. New Orleans has a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/08\/15\/chris-olaves-time-to-shine-a-look-at-his-upcoming-breakout-season\/\" target=\"_self\">great young receiver in Chris Olave<\/a> and a reliable deep threat in Rahid Shaheed, but the rest of the depth chart is wide open. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/04\/29\/a-t-perry-new-orleans-saints-nfl-draft\/\" target=\"_self\">A.T. Perry showed signs of life as a rookie<\/a>, but he&#8217;s anything but a proven commodity as the third receiver in this offense. Pearson&#8217;s impressive XFL career could be enough to earn a spot on the practice squad and, if he continues to improve, he might earn some regular season snaps late in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Jahcour Pearson spent his college football years at Western Kentucky and Ole Miss before going undrafted in the 2022 NFL Draft. The wide receiver earned invites to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/giants\" target=\"_self\">New York Giants<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/jets\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Jets<\/a> minicamp but ultimately couldn&#8217;t latch on with either organization. He did, however, find a home with the <a  href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seattle_Sea_Dragons\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">XFL&#8217;s Seattle Sea Dragons<\/a>. Immediately breaking out, Pearson finished the season with 60 receptions for 670 receptions and four touchdowns while adding an additional six receptions for 56 yards and a score in Seattle&#8217;s lone playoff game.<\/p>\n<p>While he didn&#8217;t draw any interest from the Saints or any other NFL team, Jahcour Pearson returned to spring football for the 2024 season. Now merged with the UFL, the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.theufl.com\/teams\/st-louis\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Louis Battlehawks<\/a> used the second-overall pick to secure his services. Unfortunately, injuries limited him to just four games, but he still recorded 21 receptions for 167 yards and a touchdown during his limited time on the field.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Steven Bisig &#8211; USA Today Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dominating with the XFL&#8217;s Seattle Sea Dragons, the New Orleans Saints brought in Jahcour Pearson for a free agent visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":188004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[9967,7659],"class_list":["post-187997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-saints","tag-jahcour-pearson","tag-saints-featured"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187997","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\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}