re: Melting taking a Tackle when we all knew for weeks they’d take a Tackle?

I don’t think folks thought 3 OTs would be off the board and quite literally every single defensive player would be available at 14. It’s not that the Saints took a OT (they need one). It’s that they took the 4th best one when there were probably better players at other positions available.

Look at the Raiders. They didn’t necessarily want a TE. But when all the players at the positions they wanted were gone they didn’t panic and just take the 4th, 5th, 6th, best player at that position. They took the BPA