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New Orleans Saints wide receiver Marques Colston, a seventh-round surprise three summers ago, has made the biggest catch of his career -- a three-year contract extension.


General manager Mickey Loomis announced the deal Wednesday. Colston was scheduled to make $445,000 this season from his rookie contract. He was planning on playing out the season at that number but had hoped for a new deal.

That deal came together on the opening day of Saints training camp. Terms of the deal weren't immediately available.

"It's really a tribute to how well Marques has done for us coming from Hofstra and being a seventh-round pick," Loomis said. "Clearly, he's been very productive, a nice surprise and a great story for us."

Great news for the Saints, they lock up one of their best underrated and underpaid players. I will be interested to see how much he gets because I'm wondering how much he will get compared to the other Top WR"s in the game. Would it be a stretch to say he's top 5-7 ?

This is great for the saints to get one of there late draft day studs locked up for the next couple of years especially since they got shocky everything seems to be going good for the saints right now

Great move for both sides. Saints lock up a great young talent and keep the main pieces of their offense locked up for several years. And great move for Colston who will most likely be hitting his prime by the time this contract expires and get another big payday.

Smart move locking him up. I know the fantasy people love Colston, but I wouldn't call him a top 10 WR just yet. IMO a decent percentage of his production is based on the fact it's a pass-happy offense and they haven't had anyone better than him to throw to. Put him in Chicago or KC and I doubt anyone would consider him a #1 wideout, let alone one of the top 10 in the league. Which is not his fault...What I like about Colston is that he didn't get complacent after his breakout rookie year, he kept working on his footwork and catching more poorly thrown balls.

One thing about this that sort of intrigues me is that Colston was going to make $440K this year and next. That's the exact same deal that Devin Hester got, yet Hester was a 2nd rounder and Colston was almost Mr. Irrelevant. No wonder Hester is holding out, and no wonder the agents push so hard to get their guys in the top 50 picks (Hester went 57th IIRC) Quite a steep dropoff if there is no contractual difference between the end of the 2nd and 7th rounds.

I disagree, he's a legit number 1 on any team, he can't be jammed at the line, he's excellent at finding holes in the zone, he has strong hands, he's excellent on fade routes in the end zone, he has enough speed to get deep(see the 86 yard TD in Carolina), he breaks a crap load of tackles, hell, he even gets out and blocks.

He has a lot of strengths, and not really a glaring weakness other than getting nagging injuries from being to physical.

Bump, he is a top 10 guy, probably bordering top 5 IMO.

Someone name me 10 guys who have been better over the past two seasons.

Icness wrote: I wouldn't call him a top 10 WR just yet. IMO a decent percentage of his production is based on the fact it's a pass-happy offense and they haven't had anyone better than him to throw to. Put him in Chicago or KC and I doubt anyone would consider him a #1 wideout, let alone one of the top 10 in the league. Which is not his fault...What I like about Colston is that he didn't get complacent after his breakout rookie year, he kept working on his footwork and catching more poorly thrown balls.

He sees as much double coverage as any top receiver, and he produces, how does that not automatically qualify him as a #1 wideout?

Randy Moss, TO, Steve Smith, Johnson and Houshmandzadeh, Reggie Wayne, Fitzgerald and Boldin... pretty hard to make a case for Colston over those eight guys. You can talk about Colston with guys like Braylon Edwards, Roy Williams, Donald Driver and Greg Jennings, Lee Evans, Andre Johnson. Then there's the old(er) guys: Plaxico Burress, Tory Holt, Marvin Harrison, Hines Ward, Santana Moss. Where do you put them? And who knows where Calvin Johnson fits in.

Ranking WRs for fantasy gives me enough of a headache, let alone ranking them in on the field contributions. I don't see how Colston comes out top 5. Top 10, maybe, but I think I'd have him lower.

deeney0 wrote:Randy Moss, TO, Steve Smith, Johnson and Houshmandzadeh, Reggie Wayne, Fitzgerald and Boldin... pretty hard to make a case for Colston over those eight guys. You can talk about Colston with guys like Braylon Edwards, Roy Williams, Donald Driver and Greg Jennings, Lee Evans, Andre Johnson. Then there's the old(er) guys: Plaxico Burress, Tory Holt, Marvin Harrison, Hines Ward, Santana Moss. Where do you put them? And who knows where Calvin Johnson fits in.

Ranking WRs for fantasy gives me enough of a headache, let along ranking them in on the field contributions. I don't see how Colston comes out top 5. Top 10, maybe, but I think I'd have him lower.

I'll give you Moss, TO, Smith, and even Holt for sure, Reggie Wayne, and Chad Johnson I'd take to, but Houshmanzadeh benefits from single coverage that Chad draws. Marvin Harrison is the number 2 guy at this point IMO in Indy.

Then you have Roy Williams, Driver, Jennings, Lee Evans and Andre Johnson. Roy Williams has one comparable season to Colston's two in 4 years, Driver has been solid, but hasn't even hit 10 TD's once, Jennings is a big no, he's not even a number 1 option at all. Plax hasn't had any seasons as good as Colston's last year.

Braylon Edwards broke out, and was impressive, he's hard to say for or against.

Healthy Marvin Harrison is definitely better, but how much has he slowed at this point? he's too hard to rank. I'm wary of Reggie Wayne though, he's great, I love him as a New Orleans guy, but I'm not sure he does anything better than Colston does, and if Colston replaced him, Indy might be better, he can do everything just as well, but he's 6'4 230.

The guy's rookie year he played 14 games, but in 2 he only played 1 snap, so in 12 games he caught 70 balls for 1038 and 8 TD's, then followed that up the next year with 98 catches for 1202 yards and 11 TD's.

Like Icness said, he's the only guy to throw to, but he's the only guy to cover here, Devery Henderson was our number 2 receiver, and our running game was non existent because of line woes. Not like he had it easy, or saw single coverage, the guy IS the target, he had some pressure off him in his rookie year, but as a sophomore he was blanketed, which was why he started the season so slow, and needed to adjust.

I'll take

Moss
TO
Smith
Holt
Chad Johnson
Fitzgerald

Probables

Reggie Wayne
Marvin Harrison(not sure what to do with him to be honest, I have no idea what we will see)

Then the next group are guys that are ranked about right with Colston IMO:

Housh
Braylon
Brandon Marshall(he was great last year)
Boldin

I thought he was better than everyone on the list after Reggie Wayne last year, so he's easily in my top 10, but I can't see a legitimate argument for anyone outside of the rest of these guys, especially a lot of those guys you listed, I could be forgetting someone though

Plexiglas Burress should be on that list too, hes been better than Colston with a lot less help from the QB position.

He hasn't been better, but he has had less help.