{"id":913330,"date":"2026-06-17T05:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/saints-dt-davon-godchaux-excited-about-direction-of-the-team-entering-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T05:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:12:20","slug":"saints-dt-davon-godchaux-excited-about-direction-of-the-team-entering-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/saints-dt-davon-godchaux-excited-about-direction-of-the-team-entering-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints DT Davon Godchaux excited about direction of the team entering 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football <\/p>\n<div id=\"zephr-anchor\">\n<p>Confidence is growing within the facility for the New Orleans Saints, and veteran defensive tackle Davon Godchaux made that clear recently at his annual youth football camp.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/platform.canalstreetchronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2253829936.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100\" data-pswp-height=\"5594\" data-pswp-width=\"3730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img title=\"Football\" alt=\"Football NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - DECEMBER 28: Davon Godchaux #92 of the New Orleans Saints looks on during warmups before playing the Tennessee Titans at Nissan Stadium on December 28, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Wesley Hitt\/Getty Images)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\"   src=\"https:\/\/platform.canalstreetchronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2253829936.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&#038;w=2400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cI feel good, feeling the best shape I\u2019ve been in. Feel really good. Exciting season to come. A second-year quarterback, Tyler Shough, and also got a guy who started behind him, which is Spencer Rattler. So, I feel like we got two monsters at the quarterback position. Defense was top 10 last year. Excited to have a better defense this year. I feel like we was top 10 last year. We still didn\u2019t really play our best defense. So excited for that. Healthy O-line. Got a lot of weapons. First-round draft pick at receiver. So I\u2019m excited about it. Got some good things going.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Godchaux\u2019s optimism is focused on the entire roster, emphasizing the excitement surrounding the Saints quarterback situation with Shough opening the season as the clear cut starter, while also pointing to a defense that finished among the NFL\u2019s top units in 2025 despite leaving plenty room for improvement.<\/p>\n<p>As the Saints continue their offseason program, Godchaux believes the pieces are in place for New Orleans to exceed expectations in 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canalstreetchronicles.com\/new-orleans-saints-news\/110826\/saints-dt-davon-godchaux-excited-about-direction-of-the-team-entering-2026\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> Nic Jennings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confidence is growing within the facility for the New Orleans Saints, and veteran defensive tackle Davon Godchaux made that clear recently at his annual youth football camp. \u201cI feel good, feeling the best shape I\u2019ve been in. Feel really good. Exciting season to come. A second-year quarterback, Tyler Shough, and also got a guy who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":913331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149787,3790,23796],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-davon","category-football","category-saints"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}