Saints HC Sean Payton announced Friday that Teddy Bridgewater will start for them at quarterback in Week 17, per Nick Underhill.
“He’s had a good week, and he’ll play well,” Payton said of Bridgewater, per Josh Katzenstein.
The was the expectation all along, given that the Saints have locked up the No. 1 seed in the postseason.
Bridgewater, 26, is a former first-round pick of the Vikings back in 2014. He played out the final year of his four-year, $6,849,502 rookie contract after Minnesota declined to pick up his fifth-year option.
This offseason, Bridgewater signed a one-year, $6 million contract with the Jets that includes just $500,000 guaranteed. The Jets later traded him to the Saints during the preseason.
In 2018, Bridgewater has appeared in four games for the Saints.
We have him featured in our Top 25 – 2019 NFL Free Agents list.
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