By Mike Triplett, The Times-Picayune

February 06, 2010, 12:00AM

MIAMI – Pierre Thomas has a mean streak in him.

The New Orleans Saints‘ tailback talks about how he wanted to kick down doors to break into the NFL, and he says all the time that he likes to run over defenders and break their will on his way into the end zone.

But when he does those things, he does it with a smile on his face.

That familiar smile has been plastered across Thomas’ face from the day the Saints picked him up as an undrafted free agent out of Illinois in 2007 to the night he emerged as the go-to guy in their NFC championship game victory over the Minnesota Vikings.

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