Here’s why Saints receiver Marques Colston isn’t playing today, against the Raiders.

As of Friday, Colston was ready to go and planned on playing.  He has taken many reps in the nickel and dime packages during practice, and he was led to believe that he’d play in those formations on Sunday.

But further review of the status by doctors resulted in a decision by the team to give him another week to heal.

But Colston wanted to play, and as of Friday was going to play.

(How’s that for a recovery from blowing the story?  Then again, maybe we should have just said our source was wrong.)