2026 Tulane Pro Day at the Saints Facility
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Welcome to this special edition of the Green Wave report. Today it's Tulane Pro Day at the Saints indoor practice facility. A baker's dozen athletes and former players for Tulane gathered to go through a series of drills.
#6 Kameron Hamilton - DL
#8 Isaiah Wadsworth – DB
#11 Tre Shackelford - WR
#12 KC Eziomume – DB
#12 Jake Retzlaff - QB
#15 Sam Howard - LB
#32 Bailey Despanie - DB
#50 Jordan Hall - OL
#58 Jack Hollifield - OL
#76 Derrick Graham - OL
#82 Johnny Pascuzzi - TE
Also joining in the drills, former Tulane Student-Athletes
#14 Angelo Anderson - DL
#42 Mandel Eugene - LB
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The Day's Activities
Among the drills the athletes were put through were Bench Press, The Vertical Jump, Broad Jump, and the 40-yard dash.
Players also participated in Position Drills: Defensive Backs/Linebackers, Quarterbacks/Wide Receivers/Tight End, Defensive Line, and Offensive Line.
Though no official numbers were released, but Tulane officials tell us over 25 scouts from the NFL were on hand Tuesday. That follows up the LSU Pro Day that was held for most of those scouts were in Baton Rouge on Monday.
On SI Tulane Perspective
Parents, family members, and friends were in a roped-off area close the entrance of the Saints indoor practice facility. The media was originally designated to be across the field, but we were eventually allowed access to other parts of the facility, except the weight room.
Quarterback, Jake Retzlaff was put through the ringer throwing deep outs, deep passes over the middle and each time he had to do something different, such as pretend like he was handing off to a running back then set up for the pass. Retzlaff showed good strength and darn good accuracy throughout the drills. Though not all his passes were perfect, the senior from California was able to put some zip on each of his throws. One deep pass in particular drew oohs and ahhs from those in attendance.
Besides the wide receivers already in attendance today for pro day, current Tulane wide receivers were asked to come help on Retzlaff's drills: Garrett Mmahat and Anthony Brown-Stevens went out for passes.
Defensive back. Bailey Despanie showed extremely good speed and coverage ability in most drills.
Offensive lineman, Derrick Shepard and Jack Hollifield showed great foot movement and hand speed.
We hope you've enjoyed today's special edition of the Green Wave report, Tulane Pro Day here at the saints practice facility. We will be back with our regular edition of the green wave report at 4:00 p.m. on Monday.
Doug has covered a gamut of sporting events in his fifty-plus years in the field. He started doing sideline reporting for Louisiana Tech football games for the student radio station. Doug was Sports Director for KNOE-AM/FM in Monroe in the mid-80s, winning numerous awards from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association for Best Sportscast and Best Play-by-Play. High school play-by-play for teams in Monroe, Natchitoches, New Orleans, and Thibodaux, LA dot his resume. He did college play-by-play for Northwestern State University in Natchitoches for nine years. Then, moving to the Crescent City, Doug did television PBP of Tulane games and even filled in for legendary Tulane broadcaster, Ken Berthelot in the only game Kenny ever missed while doing the Green Wave games. His father was an alumnus of Tulane in the 1940s, so Doug has attended Tulane football games in old Tulane Stadium, the Superdome, and Yulman. He was one of the 86,000 plus on December 1, 1973, sitting in the North End Zone to seeTulane shutout the LSU Tigers, 14-0. He was there when the Posse ruled Fogelman and in Turchin when the Wave made it to the World Series. He currently is the public address voice of the Tulane baseball team.