Mark Ingram's 2022 season might've ended early, but he's still not done putting in work at the Caesars Superdome.
The Saints RB will serve as Alabama's sideline reporter for the Sugar Bowl, according to a report from Michael Casagrande of AL.com. The role with the Crimson Tide Radio Network is currently vacant because Rashad Johnson took an assistant coaching job with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before the 2022 season. The role has been filled on a rotating basis all season.
No. 5 Alabama, in a rare non-College Football Playoff bowl appearance, will face off against No. 11 Kansas State at 11 a.m. on New Year's Eve.
Ingram landed on injured reserve due to a knee injury suffered late in the Saints' Week 13 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Ingram is the Saints' all-time leading rusher, and finished the 2022 season with 233 rushing yards and a touchdown on 62 carries carries, along with 68 yards receiving on 16 catches catches while backing up Alvin Kamara.
But the RB will get back to his Alabama roots, where he starred from 2008-'10 and won the Heisman Trophy in the 2009 season. Ingram finished his career with the Crimson Tide with an otherworldly 3,261 yards and 42 touchdowns rushing before being selected No. 28 overall by the Saints in the 2011 draft.
Ingram joins Drew Brees among the cast of Saints legends serving a bowl season role, with the former quarterback signing on as an interim assistant coach for his alma mater Purdue as they ready to face LSU in the Citrus Bowl.
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