New Orleans Saints linebacker Alex Anzalone might be the breakout player of 2018. Last year’s third round pick looked promising before an untimely shoulder injury knocked him out of action just four games into the season. The concern with Anzalone ever since has been the loss of experience he could have gotten if healthy last year; but if today’s Saints training camp practice is anything to go by, he may have gotten even better.

This is just an incredible video from the great team over at FOX8-NOLA. Quarterback Tom Savage must have missed Anzalone undercutting the crossing route to leap into the air and steal the ball away. The clean scoring return after the catch is just icing on the cake. Props to the former Florida Gators five-star recruit.

It feels like it’s been years since a New Orleans linebacker made a play like this, much less a 23-year old in just his second season. To their credit, other Saints linebackers Demario Davis and Craig Robertson also came away with interceptions on Monday.

All told it was a great day for the defense, with New Orleans Advocate sports reporters Nick Underhill and Joel Erickson each calling it one of the better defensive practices they’ve observed since covering the team. If that high praise – and Anzalone’s high hops – don’t get you stoked for games to get here sooner, I don’t know what will.