History of Saints 1st Rd Trades

We are in the golden age of the Saints. Still ya might want to temper your enthusiasm for a trade looking at these-

1967 #1 overall
Traded Gary Cuozzo, Buford Allison, 1967 seventeenth round pick (#438-Billy Bob Stewart) to Saints for Bill Curry, 1967 first round pick (#1-Charles "Bubba" Smith), 1967 third round pick (#54-Norm Davis), 1969 seventh round pick (#163-Gary Fleming) on 1967-03-06

1968 #5 overall
Traded Jim Taylor to Saints for Phil Vandersea, 1968 first round pick (#5-Fred Carr) on 1967-07-06

1969 #7 overall
Traded Kevin Hardy, 1969 first round pick (#7-Ted Kwalick) on 1968-07-26 as compensation for free agent Dave Parks

1973 #2 overall
Traded Billy Newsome, 1973 fourth round pick (#86-Jim Merlo) to Saints for 1973 first round pick (#2-Bert Jones) on 1973-01-29

1974 #8 overall
Traded Dave Thompson, 1974 first round pick (#13-Rick Middleton) to Saints for 1974 first round pick (#8-Ed O'Neil), 1975 sixth round pick (#138-Fred Cooper) on 1974-01-29

1982 traded for #13 overall
Traded Wes Chandler to Chargers for Aundra Thompson, 1982 first round pick (#13-Lindsay Scott), 1982 third round pick (#76-John Krimm) on 1981-09-29

1983 #11 overall
Traded Bruce Clark to Saints for 1983 first round pick (#11-Tim Lewis) on 1982-06-10

1984 #15 overall
Traded Richard Todd to Saints for 1984 first round pick (#15-Ron Faurot) on 1984-02-18

1985 #11 overall
Traded Earl Campbell to Saints for 1985 first round pick (#11-Richard Johnson) on 1984-10-09

1986 traded down for #6 overall
Traded 1986 first round pick (#4-John Hand) to Colts for 1986 first round pick (#6-Jim Dombrowski), 1986 third round pick (#60-Pat Swilling) on 1986-04-18

1991 #14 overall
Traded Steve Walsh to Saints for 1991 first round pick (#14-Leonard Russell), 1991 third round pick (#70-Erik Williams), 1992 second round pick (#52-Patrick Rowe) on 1990-09-25

1993 traded for #8 overall
Traded Pat Swilling to Lions for 1993 first round pick (#8-William Roaf), 1993 fourth round pick (#89-Lorenzo Neal) on 1993-04-25

1993 traded up for #20
Traded 1993 first round pick (#26-Dana Stubblefield), 1993 third round pick (#81-Earl Dotson) to 49ers for 1993 first round pick (#20-Irv Smith) on 1993-04-25

1994 traded down for #13 overall
Traded 1994 first round pick (#12-Aaron Glenn) to Jets for 1994 first round pick (#13-Joe Johnson), 1994 fifth round pick (#143-Craig Novitsky) on 1994-04-24

1997 #2 overall
Traded Daryl Hobbs, 1997 first round pick (#10-Chris Naeole), 1997 second round pick (#39-Jared Tomich), 1997 fourth round pick (#107-Pratt Lyons) to Saints for 1997 first round pick (#2-Darrell Russell), 1997 sixth round pick (#166-John Fiala) on 1997-03-31

1999 #5 overall
Traded 1999 first round pick (#12-Cade McNown), 1999 third round pick (#71-D'Wayne Bates), 1999 fourth round pick (#107-Nate Stimson), 1999 fifth round pick (#144-Khari Samuel), 1999 sixth round pick (#179-Desmond Clark), 1999 seventh round pick (#218-Billy Miller), 2000 first round pick (#2-LaVar Arrington), 2000 third round pick (#64-Lloyd Harrison) for 1999 first round pick (#5-Ricky Williams) on 2001-04-17

2000 #2 overall
-see previous pick/trade

2003 traded up for #6 overall
Traded two 2003 first round picks (#17-Bryant Johnson) (#18-Calvin Pace), 2003 second round pick (#54-Anquan Boldin) to Cardinals for 2003 first round pick (#6-Johnathan Sullivan), 2003 second round pick (#37-Jonathan Stinchcomb), 2003 fourth round pick (#102-Montrae Holland) on 2003-04-26

2005 traded up for #13
Traded 2005 first round pick (#16-Travis Johnson), 2006 third round pick (#66-Eric Winston) to Texans for 2005 first round pick (#13-Jammal Brown) on 2005-04-23

2008 traded up for #7 overall
Traded 2008 first round pick (#10-Jerod Mayo), 2008 third round pick (#78-Shawn Crable) to Patriots for 2008 first round pick (#7-Sedrick Ellis), 2008 fifth round pick (#164-Carl Nicks) on 2008-04-26

2011 traded for #28
Traded 2011 second round pick (#56-Shane Vereen), 2012 first round pick (#27-Kevin Zeitler) to Patriots for 2011 first round pick (#28-Mark Ingram) on 2011-04-28

--21 1st Rd trades in 46 years of a franchise