{"id":243906,"date":"2025-08-26T10:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=243906"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:59:19","slug":"breaking-saints-release-second-round-bust-isaiah-foskey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/08\/26\/breaking-saints-release-second-round-bust-isaiah-foskey\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Saints Release Second-Round Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Saints edge defender Isaiah Foskey struggled through his first two seasons with the team, and he won&#8217;t have a chance to redeem himself in Year 3. <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nick_underhill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to Nick Underhill<\/a>, the team has released the pass rusher as they move towards today&#8217;s 53-man roster limit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_243907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243907\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-243907\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/Saints-Cut-Isaiah-Foskey-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Saints Cut Isaiah Foskey\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/Saints-Cut-Isaiah-Foskey-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/Saints-Cut-Isaiah-Foskey-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/Saints-Cut-Isaiah-Foskey-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/Saints-Cut-Isaiah-Foskey-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/Saints-Cut-Isaiah-Foskey-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/Saints-Cut-Isaiah-Foskey-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/Saints-Cut-Isaiah-Foskey-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-243907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aug 23, 2025; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Denver Broncos quarterback Sam Ehlinger (4) runs from New Orleans Saints defensive end Isaiah Foskey (55) during the second half at Caesars Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Hinton-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saints?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Saints<\/a> are waiving DE Isaiah Foskey, their 2nd-round pick in 2023, per <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nick_underhill?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@nick_underhill<\/a>. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L1XbitbQzv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/L1XbitbQzv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1960344291038953521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Saints Release Second-Round Bust Isaiah Foskey<\/h2>\n<p>Isaiah Foskey originally joined the NFL with the 40th-overall pick in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-draft\/\" target=\"_self\">2023 NFL Draft<\/a>. Selected by the New Orleans Saints, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/01\/29\/dennis-allen-will-see-a-lot-of-success-with-the-chicago-bears\/\" target=\"_self\">then-head coach Dennis Allen<\/a> hoped Foskey could bring some fresh legs to an aging group of edge defenders. Unfortunately, he struggled to make an impact early, appearing in just 10 games without making a start while recording nine tackles, no tackles-for-loss, no quarterback hits, and no sacks.<\/p>\n<p>This disappointing start proved to be a sign of things to come, as he couldn&#8217;t improve in Year 2. While he appeared in all 17 games, he still couldn&#8217;t earn a starting role and finished the season with just 16 tackles, no tackles-for-loss, and no sacks. New Orleans fired Dennis Allen after the season and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/06\/06\/kellen-moore-saints-chris-olave-trade-rumors\/\" target=\"_self\">replaced him with Kellen Moore<\/a>, but it&#8217;s clear this regime change did not bring out the best in the veteran.<\/p>\n<p>While Foskey hasn&#8217;t panned out at the NFL level, some team will probably take a risk on him, even if it&#8217;s just by signing him to the practice squad. While the Saints clearly didn&#8217;t get second-round value out of him, this pick was not considered a reach at the time. Other teams probably had a similar draft grade for him, and perhaps a new environment can bring out the best in the Notre Dame product.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Jon Endow &#8211; Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints cut former second-round pick Isaiah Foskey after two disappointing seasons in the Big Easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":243908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[28,6431],"tags":[9645,7659],"class_list":["post-243906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saints","category-nfl-teams","tag-isaiah-foskey","tag-saints-featured"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243906","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=243906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243909,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243906\/revisions\/243909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}