NFL 30 to Watch: Marques Colston, Wide Receiver, New Orleans Saints

Published: August 6, 2007, 6:45 pm

Filed under: Saints, NFC SouthA regular look at 30 people who will affect the 2007 NFL season. Marques Colston won't sneak up on unsuspecting defensive coordinator's this year, not after the rookie season he put together. The 2006 seventh-round pick caught 70 passes for 1,038 yards a year ago, leading everyone to wonder how 31 teams could pass on him ... seven times (and, to be fair, how the Saints could use their six previous picks on other players). Apparently, Colston was a wide receiver/tight end tweener, thought to be too slow to play outside in the NFL, and his mediocre showing at the February combine only reinforced those sentiments. Now the 6-4, 230-pound former Hofstra star is New Orleans' No. 1 receiver. With Joe Horn now in Atlanta, Terrance Copper, by process of elimination, will start opposite Colston (don't get me wrong, Copper's a nice player, but he's not a No. 2, at least on a playoff team). The Saints drafted Tennessee wideout Robert Meachem in the first round, but

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