Saints’ Justin Reid dives into pictures at Pelicans recreation | Pelicans

Justin Reid checked one other field Wednesday night time.

If you recognize something concerning the New Orleans Saints’ security, that shouldn’t come as a shock.

He’s the strolling definition of a polymath, an individual of encyclopedic studying. 

Once Reid places his thoughts on doing one thing, you greatest imagine he’s going to get it finished.

The Dutchtown High grad is not only a two-time Super Bowl champion who simply accomplished his eighth NFL season.

He’s an avid golfer.

He’s a chess participant, rating someplace within the seventy fifth percentile of aggressive gamers.

Oh, and if the Saints are ever in a crunch and want an emergency kicker, Reid can deal with that, too. (He made an additional level and barely missed a 44-yard area purpose final summer time in coaching camp.)

Reid formally added “photographer” to his resume Wednesday night time as he sat on the baseline on the Smoothie King Center and took footage and shot video for the New Orleans Pelicans’ social media staff for the sport towards the Detroit Pistons.

“I’m having a blast,” Reid stated at halftime.

And no, this wasn’t just a few gimmick for clicks and likes.

The Saints and Pelicans take their social media content material severely.

“He was a natural,” stated Alex Restrepo, senior director of social media for each franchises. “From video, photo and helping shoot the courtside broadcast angle, he proved he has a great eye for content.”

Reid, who needs to sometime go into broadcasting, grew to become concerned about pictures some time again when he was his InstaGram web page.

“My content on my page needs to get better,” he advised himself.

Reid had attended the NFL’s broadcast boot camp and the league’s social media and advertising boot camp two years in the past. That led him to purchasing a pleasant digital camera. But the door actually opened in the course of the season when he injured his knee within the first quarter of the sport towards the Miami Dolphins. He missed the next two weeks.

“I turn everything into an opportunity,” Reid stated. “So when I got hurt, that’s a negative. I turned that extra time into a positive by going to hang out with the Saints’ production team. I had about 10 people feeding me information. ‘How do I do this? How do I do that?’ They poured into me and gave me a head start.”

Reid was inquisitive, desirous to be simply as thorough about his new passion as he’s about finding out recreation movie. He’s a Stanford graduate, so him catching on rapidly shouldn’t actually shock anybody. And if he didn’t perceive one thing, he requested questions. Lots and plenty of questions. 

“I asked a sh — ton of questions,” Reid stated.

If you do not imagine Reid, simply ask social media member Megan Kottemann. 

“Oh, God did he ask questions,” Kottemann stated. “He was in in full Stanford brain where he’s asking such intelligent questions. He made me question myself. Sometimes I had to bring him to other people that have a deeper knowledge.”

Reid obtained an opportunity to place his data to the take a look at Wednesday when he obtained his first task on the Pelicans’ recreation.

“After the first five minutes, I started to get a feel for it,” Reid stated. “Pictures. Videos. And then I grabbed the big boy camera and was doing the live feed.”

Sitting on the bottom line can generally be scary. Not that Reid was ever apprehensive about Zion Williamson or any of the opposite gamers crashing into him.

“I would’ve just tackled him,” Reid stated with a smile.

And he’s most likely proper. Reid tends to deal with something he needs to deal with, together with this newest enterprise. Eventually when his profession is over, he needs to be in entrance of the digital camera as an alternative of behind it.

“I felt like knowing this production side would be useful because you have more high-level conversations with people in getting things done,” Reid stated.

Reid went to social media to precise simply how happy he was together with his first actual gig.

“Emergency kicker, emergency camera man, emergency whateva you need!” Reid posted on X. “Side quest complete.”

It was adopted, after all, by a inexperienced test mark.