Shocker: Taysom Hill Will Start As Saints QB Over Jameis Winston

Sean Payton has said that Taysom Hill is the quarterback of the future for the Saints, but I don't think there's too many people who believed he would stick to that word and play Hill over Jameis Winston against the Falcons on Sunday. Star QB Drew Brees is sidelined with rib and lung injuries.

HOWEVER:

That qualifies as a whoa. It would've been one thing if Taysom Hill were the nominal starter and then Winston wound up taking most of the snaps. This report from ESPN implies that Hill will be the quarterback for New Orleans for the duration of the game.

This game is pretty high stakes, as the Saints and Packers are atop the NFC at 7-2 while the Seahawks are 7-3. The Saints wish to secure home field throughout the playoffs, but they already can't necessarily control their own destiny because they lost head-to-head to the Packers. They do not have a lot of margin of error to earn the top seed.