Quarterback · New Orleans Saints

Tyler Shough

No. 6 · 2nd season

Peyton Manning is keeping a close eye on Tyler Shough this year

There are people who say nice things about a young quarterback because it is polite. And then there is Peyton Manning talking about you at the Manning Passing Academy, which is something else entirely.

Shough is heading into his second year with the New Orleans Saints, still working to prove he belongs at this level. The first year was about getting his footing. This one is about making a case.

Manning, who won five league MVP awards over a career that set the standard for how the position is played, spoke up for Shough publicly at the academy — a camp Manning runs specifically to develop quarterbacks. That is his wheelhouse. He does not throw names around there to fill time.

For a young quarterback still building his reputation, that kind of endorsement from that particular person does not go unnoticed. It changes how a room looks at you before you have said a word.

Now Shough has to go do something with it.

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