METAIRIE, La. -- The most impressive pass thrown at New Orleans Saints camp this week might have come from New Orleans Pelicans point guard Rajon Rondo.

The two teams, both owned by Tom and Gayle Benson, share a practice facility campus. As a result, they occasionally get to discover things like the fact that Rondo has some serious football skills.

Rondo sent Drew Brees and other onlookers into a frenzy this week when he outdueled the Saints quarterbacks by getting a deep pass to land on a trainers’ table.

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“We’ve been doing this for 12 years, and that has never, ever happened," Brees said of the way Rondo's ball actually came to rest on the table after bouncing off a nearby garbage can. "And the dude comes out on his first throw and does it. So, pretty impressive."

Brees explained that it wasn’t one of the full-blown QB competitions like the Saints do throughout training camp. “But every time we leave the field, we usually kind of pick a target and throw at it, and it’s just one throw to see if you can hit it.” And Rondo happened to be in attendance for this one.

“It was about a 50-, 55-yard throw,” Brees said. “So I threw and hit the black pad. Someone else threw, and they got close, and someone else got close. And then Rondo steps up, and I’m telling you, he had thrown like three practice throws, maybe like 10 yards, and was kind of like one of these, ‘Ahhh’ [mimicking soreness while stretching].

“I’m thinking, ‘He’s not gonna get within 20 yards of this thing.' And he just flicks one out there, and it kind of hits the back of the pad, but there was a trash can behind the pad, and it hits the pad, hits the trash can and then hops back up on the pad, and it rests on the pad.

“Then he was just out there today catching balls off the Jugs machine one-handed, and he threw gloves on, and he was catching punts. So he seems like he’s just a gym rat. He’s a gym rat, and he’s extremely talented. You can tell he was probably one of those multisport athletes, probably played QB in high school, running the show. He’s a great athlete.”

Indeed, Rondo has said in the past that he was a quarterback and dreamed of playing in the NFL one day before he decided to focus solely on basketball after his freshman year.