If nothing else, New Orleans Saints undrafted rookie quarterback Hunter Dekkers is a clutch 3-point shooter.

With the possibility (or, more likely, inevitability) that a successful 3-pointer would allow Saints players to avoid the third and final day of mandatory minicamp in favor of a team outing at Five O Fore Golf + Entertainment, Dekkers only required one stroke to end any drama.

"(Tight end) Juwan (Johnson) was the offensive captain, and he chose Hunter," Saints Coach Kellen Moore said Thursday in a call with local media. "And so, after we'd had a little offense vs. defense 3-point challenge, the offense won and we doubled the ante and gave Hunter a shot and if he made it, practice is over.

"He made it. He had confidence, he let it go – he's got a little high school basketball in his background, so no one was surprised."

And if he'd missed?

"There might have been a few more shot opportunities, hopefully," Moore said. "The first guy made it and we didn't have to go down that road."

New Orleans was able to transition to a team outing to complete minicamp because all the necessary work had been completed, Moore said.

"Had two really good days on Tuesday and Wednesday of practice, thought our guys really just attacked it – longer practices, heat, I thought these guys knocked it out of the park," Moore said. "And so, today Hunter Dekkers made a 3-pointer in the team meeting and so we chose to go to Five O Fore Golf and spend some time as a team."

It was the third team outing the Saints enjoyed this offseason, joining a paintball session and a community service project.

Moore said the offseason has been a continual building process, and the outings played an integral part.

"It's really important to build on a solid foundation," he said. "That foundation is really built around people first and foremost, and so we certainly spent a lot of this time trying to find different avenues and opportunities for all of us to connect and spend time, whether it be an outing of paintball or golf or a community service event.

"As you build a team, you've got to connect to everyone. So, we started there. Built a really good foundation in the weight room – I thought (Saints director of sports performance) Ted (Rath) and that group did a phenomenal job of just building on a really good foundation of creating really good habits in there. They worked their tails off and we feel like we saw a lot a growth in the weight room from a lot of our guys, whether it be from a weight training or a speed proponent. There's a lot of different growth there.

"That was really good and then once we got to the football aspect in Phase II, it was really about building a foundation from a schematic standpoint and really focusing on the fundamentals, the details and building a sound foundation from a scheme perspective. I feel like we're there and the main objective moving forward is to just continue to keep growing, and keep building through training camp."

Moore said the Saints have been a connected, hard-working team throughout the offseason workouts.

"I think that's one of the big aspects of this is we're creating habits during the offseason," he said. "Schematically, some of the what you can do during the OTAs has some limitations, and that's OK. I think our habits are where we want them.

"We felt as our offseason progressed that…our players were doing an outstanding job with what they were doing, their workload, their ability to compete. As they went, we felt like as long as this stayed on that same trend line, this was going to be a great opportunity for us to finish off camp this way."

QB UPDATE: Technically, there really isn't an update. The battle for starter will resume in training camp in a quarterback room that currently consists of Spencer Rattler, second-round pick Tyler Shough, Jake Haener and Dekkers. Only Rattler (six) and Haener (one) have started an NFL game.

"I like where those guys are heading," Moore said. "A lot of the quarterback process during the OTA phase is really focused on their command and their control, their ability to call the play, take control at the line of scrimmage. I thought all those guys get a check there, they did a really good job.

"You see them make the throws that you need to make, they certainly made those plays and I think their preparation has been really good. The execution, just the consistency is going to be the big aspect as we continue to grow this thing. But feel really good about where all these guys are at."