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The New Orleans Saints will face the Seattle Seahawks in Saturday’s NFC wild-card playoff game minus second-year starting safety Malcolm Jenkins, ruled out with a right knee injury, the team announced Friday.

Jenkins suffered the injury on opening drive of the team’s Week 17 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was injured bringing down Bucs running back LaGarrette Blount on the sideline at the end of a 16-yard run. Jenkins immediately grabbed his knee after the play, and was replaced by Darren Sharper.

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