Mark Ingram wants bigger role in Saints passing game

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Mark Ingram wants bigger role in Saints passing game

hasn't been involved much in the ' pa sing attack the past three seasons. In fact, the running back didn't pick up his first NFL receiving touchdown until against the , which sounds odd to say about a first-round draft pick entering his fourth season."I haven't caught a lot of pa ses in the NFL. But in high school I played receiver. If you look at my recruiting thing it says, 'Athlete,'" Ingram said, per . "And in college, I caught a lot of pa ses. I haven't done it a lot here Tomas Sandstrom Jersey . But I've always been confident in my ability to contribute out of the backfield, running routes. Line up out wide running routes. I'm comfortable doing all of that." Ingram has looked spry, decisive and quick through the hole with an obvious burst in his first two preseason games, and it's safe to say he's playing his best football entering a contract year. While we fully expect to play the third-down role and be the main target out of the backfield, with gone to Philly there will be more catches to spread around. Ingram would like a shot at some of those balls. "I want to do everything," he said. "I want to be involved in the pa s game, run game, picking up pa s pro. I want to be the most versatile player I can be," Ingram said. "...I know I'm an all-purpose Darius Kasparaitis Jersey back, a complete back, I can do everything." If Ingram keeps running the way he has the past two games, he'll earn more opportunities to prove he can be that do-everything back the thought he'd become out of Alabama. The latest "" recaps all of the action from the .
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