The Guard of Saints, César Ruiz, qualifies the Trevor Penning to the Right Trevor Movement

The New Orleans Saints teammate of the Trevor Penning saw an encouraging growth after moving to the right Tackle, but will it stay there in 2025 and beyond? That is a question that the chief coach Kellen Moore must answer this low season with the potential for improvements available in this year’s NFL draft.

But if their veterans teammates have something to say about it, Penning has done enough to stay in place and continue developing. The right guard César Ruiz said that his first year playing with Pedning was a revealing experience.

Ruiz smiled when asked about “Big Trev” for The former offensive liner and analyst at the NFL Ross Tucker.

“Personally, I think Trevor is one of the best career lock tacle, as in the league. I think it’s one of the best. I don’t know the classification, but he is one of the best. Very athletic, ”said Ruiz.

He pointed an example of writing with his rare athletics to a good use of a “sieve block“,” A task that generally occurs to a closed wing that can be a challenge for a 325 pound penning: “It is crazy. We run an outer left area, like a 19. Trevor has a sieve for security. I cut my 2i and I only look at the movie and Trevor’s all over the way in the left lateral line reaching security He is putting comfortable with that role.

Obviously, Penning still has space to grow. It is still a work in progress in pass protection. The professional football approach table discovered that it allowed 54 pressures in 663 snapshots in the low passes last year, most among the correct cups around the League. 11 of them came in a single game against the Green Bay Packers, but Penning was accused of giving up two or less pressures in nine other games. It showed rather than bad.

But something more than following is your ability to draw penalty flags. That has not been a problem as big as expected when the Saints wrote to pedning, but sometimes it got out of hand. It was committed 13 times in 2024, the third more among the correct tacoledas and tied in the eighth part among all offensive tacle. Penning drew three penalty for unnecessary roughness, one for a low block and one for a mask.

For his part, Ruiz is giving some grace: “He has just learned the position, moved from the left side to the right side. Even in Pass Pro, I think it improved a lot in Pass Pro. This is my first season playing by his side. But we told Trev, because when I was in his rookie year, second year, Trev was like ‘I’m going to go out here to kill people’. And we think, you must do it inside the whistle, you must be intelligent with that. Now he has discovered it. He says: ‘I’m going to punish this guy and get them To throw a flag ‘”.

There is certainly space for an executor on the offensive line, and Penning has shown that it can be an asset when running football. The question is whether it can improve quickly enough in the protection of the pass to remain in the right Tackle and gain a long -term contract extension. The Saints must choose whether to collect their fifth year option by 2026 before May 1. If they do not, it will be a free agent after season 2025. Two weeks later, on May 15, he will turn 26.

If Moore and his staff do not want to commit to writing in the long term, they could write their replacement: the types such as Will Campbell (LSU), Armand Mebou (Missouri) and Kelvin Banks Jr. (Texas) will be all 21 -year -old Rookies. Someone could move to the left guard, but he would like to see that Pecning remains on the right side after playing his best football there. Surely it seems that Ruiz would love to keep “Big Trev” aligned with him in autumn.