According to Ian Rapoport, Saints DT Sheldon Rankins has a significant ankle injury from Sunday’s game that he is unlikely to be able to return from this season.
It’s the third serious injury of Rankins’ young career, as he broke his fibula during his rookie season and started this year on the PUP list following an Achilles injury in last year’s playoffs.
Rankins, 25, is a former first-round pick of the Saints back in 2016. He was entering the final year of his four-year, $12.8 million contract when the Saints picked up his fifth-year option this past April.
Rankins made a base salary of $2.19 million for the 2019 season.
In 2019, Rankins appeared in 10 games for the Saints and recorded 10 tackles and two sacks. He was rated by Pro Football Focus as the No. 69 interior defender out of 116 qualifying players.
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