Chase Young scores a rare touchdown on strip sack against Titans

Cameron Belcher

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With only one game left in the season after this week, it is already known that the New Orleans Saints won't be making the playoffs.

However, the team is ending the season on a high note, with a three-game winning streak and a matchup against the Tennessee Titans on Sunday.

Although the Saints faced a 10-point halftime deficit, defensive end Chase Young scored a unique touchdown that rarely happens to get New Orleans back into the game after they had been struggling to get things going offensively.

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With a little under three minutes left in the first half, Titans star quarterback Cam Ward was dropping back and facing pressure from Young. Instead of just tackling Ward for the sack, the former second overall pick of the 2020 NFL Draft stripped the ball away in one motion and returned it for a 33-yard touchdown.

The game is in the fourth quarter, and both teams have scored, with the Saints now trailing by six points, 26-20. It has been a back-and-forth affair for the majority of the game.

Young's strip and score was his seventh sack of the season, the most since his rookie season with the Commanders, when he had 7.5 sacks, and the pass rusher has also recorded a sack in the last three games.

Plays such as this are why the Saints signed Young to a multi-year extension worth $55 million in March, as the team hopes Young will become one of the factors in the organization turning things around in the future.

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