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Another left tackle gets paid: New Orleans' Terron Armstead

It's a good week to be a left tackle.

On the heels of Tuesday's news that the Buffalo Bills made Cordy Glenn the highest-paid left tackle in the NFL comes news Wednesday morning that the New Orleans Saints made their own young left tackle, Terron Armstead, the third-highest paid.

Armstead doesn't have the name recognition of others at the position, like Glenn or Cleveland's Joe Thomas, and he doesn't yet have a Pro Bowl or All-Pro honor on his resume. But the 2013 third-round pick out of Arkansas-Pine Bluff has quietly been playing at a very high level for New Orleans.

And the Saints have rewarded him with a reported five-year, $64.5 million deal that includes $38 million guaranteed for injury and $25 million fully guaranteed.

According to the New Orleans Advocate, Armstead did not give up a sack all season in 2015, allowing 23 pressures on more than 500 pass-blocking snaps (he played 929 snaps overall) over 13 games.

And he played at that level while playing in pain: Armstead injured his left knee against the Dallas Cowboys in the fourth game of the season, underwent arthroscopic surgery after the game, and missed the next two contests. But even when he returned he was not 100 percent.