re: PFF grades Saints draft class A+

I’d compare this draft to buying a dishwasher


You didn’t really want to do it, and you won’t brag to your friends about it, but it’s something you had to do for the future

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Fuaga for Ram, Kool Aid for Latt, Spencer for Haener/Peterman/Mond, etc.)

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If you believe this is equal player for player, the Saints have made significant progress in cleaning up the salary cap. How is that alone not a win in your view?

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This really was a great draft. Good value from top to bottom.

For the first time in a while, I can't say the Sants added a player that made the roster better on-paper than the season before. It took this great draft just to remain at par.

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I think this is my problem with the draft. I didn’t want to trade up and I didn’t dislike any of our picks.

But this draft was so deep and you saw teams like the Eagles, Bengals, & Packers get appreciably better with their picks.

Even if you take out the Caleb Williams pick, the Bears only had four other picks, but they were guys who will play for them. (Odunze, Amegadjie, Taylor and Booker)

I feel like we got two good players and several lottery tickets. We weren’t good last year and we didn’t really get better.

To be fair, the Bears have a pretty terrible roster outside of the WR room and one Edge. They could have drafted an almost entire roster that could play this year.

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I’d compare this draft to buying a dishwasher You didn’t really want to do it, and you won’t brag to your friends about it, but it’s something you had to do for the future

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It was our best draft since 2017. It won’t come close to being that good but a lot of people don’t give the 2016 draft enough credit.

There weren’t a ton of sexy picks. Rankins was a solid piece for us but he was a DT and that pick was viewed a lot like the Fuaga pick. Not sexy but necessary. Then our next three picks were Michael Thomas, Vonn Bell and Onyemata. Most of those guys were really good to great players for us.

Thomas and Bell were obviously 2nd round picks but Onyemata was a 4th. It wasn’t a home run draft like 2017 BUT it got us started back in the right path. We may not end up with any All Pro type players from this class like Thomas, but the type of players we took were def above average starter caliber types like Vonn Bell, Rankins and Onyemata and those go a long way in rebuilding a roster.

If last year's draft was 2015, this is equivalent to 2016 and limited resources. Just get me a couple plus starters and a couple of depth pieces from this draft and its a solid draft IMHO.

2015 - Andrus Pet (despite everyone hating him) and a steady veteran in PJ Williams, depth with Tyeler Davison.

2016 - Sheldon Rankins (solid starter, borderline breakout before injury), Michael Thomas (elite WR before the injury), Vonn Bell (solid starter), David Onyemata (flyer, ended up being solid starter).

Hopefully Fuaga and McKinstry both show above average starter promise, we just need to get depth pieces with 1-3 more guys and that's a solid 2 year start to fix some issues.