This post has me confused.

He is a ST acquisition. Try to think of him in those terms, it may give you a moment of clarity. I would not get bent over a 7th rounder. These picks are BPA and not necessarily for a position of need. If your counting on a 7th rounder to make or break the draft for the Saints, then Dikta has traded away all your draft picks creating a whole new set of problems.

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Posted by UptownnMike

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Posted on 5/3/16 at 11:19 pm to Merlin08

It's crazy to think Cadet is 6-1 210

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Posted by patendedgmf

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Posted on 5/4/16 at 12:36 am to Mrwhodat

We ended up with the 24th ranked rushing attack in the NFL last season, with our 2 top 16 paid RBs banged up big time... but i'd still rather Ingram and CJ get that money last year than what happened to Lynch, Foster, Charles, Ivory, Demarco, Vereen.... or Would you rather some guys being paid a little less than $4MM? Toby Gerhart, Bilal Powell, Ryan Mathews, Joique Bell? PASS

With some improvements to the O-Line, even just through maturation... and a healthy Mark and CJ.... plus more help on the passing side.... we should be able to get up to that middle of the pack rushing attack, with our middle of the pack spending at the position. What is the problem? That we don't have Todd Gurley or Zeke Elliot?

Look at Zeke's salary on that chart versus the other vets. With the changes in the slotting of rookie salaries, why would you pay a rookie top 10 money at the position right out of the gate when you can get 5 years of discounted play at every other position with the same draft spot? Drafting a committee of fresh cheap legs, has yielded better results than picking RBs in high rounds. So has trading for RBs and signing them in free agency.

Want to know the last time a running back taken in the first round was the leading rusher for his team in a Superbowl winning game? February 1, 2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII, Antowain Smith, originally drafted by the Bills.

Want to know the last time a running back taken in the first round was the leading rusher for his team in a Superbowl winning game, for the team he was originally drafted to? January 28, 1996 Super Bowl XXX, Emmitt Smith... 20 years ago.

Leading Rusher for winning team in Super Bowl:
Super Bowl 50: CJ Anderson, UDFA (23 for 90, 1 TD)
Super Bowl 49: LeGarrette Blount, UDFA (14 for 40, no TD)
Super Bowl 48: Seahawks win, leading rusher… PERCY HARVIN (2 for 45)! Lynch goes 15 for 39, long of 18. that’s 14 carries for 21 yards. LOL!
Super Bowl 47: Ray Rice: Rd 2, Pick 55, (20 for 59, no TD)
Super Bowl 46: Ahmad Bradshaw, Rd 7 Pick 250, (17 for 72, 1 TD)
Super Bowl 45: James Starks, Rd 6 Pick 193, (11 for 52, no TD)
Super Bowl 44: Pierre Thomas, UDFA, (9 for 30, no TD)
Super Bowl 44: Willie Parker, UDFA, (19 for 53, no TD)
Super Bowl 42: Ahmad Bradshaw, Rd 7 Pick 250, (9 for 45, no TD)
Super Bowl 41: Dominic Rhodes, UDFA, (21 for 113, 1 TD)
Super Bowl 40: Willie Parker, UDFA, (10 for 93, 1 TD), not Jerome Bettis (14 for 43, no TD)
Super Bowl 39: Corey Dillon, Rd 2 Pick 43, (18 for 75, 1 TD)
Super Bowl 38: Antowain Smith, Rd 1 Pick 23, (26 for 83, 1 TD) (Drafted by Bills)
Super Bowl 37: Michael Pittman, Rd 4 Pick 135, (29 for 124, no TD)
Super Bowl 36: Antowain Smith, Rd 1 Pick 23, (18 for 92, no TD) (Drafted by Bills)
Super Bowl 35: Jamal Lewis, Rd 1 Pick 6, (27 for 102, 1 TD) (Drafted by Browns)
Super Bowl 34: Marshall Faulk, Rd 1 Pick 2, (10 for 17, no TD - 5 for 90 no TD) (Drafted by Colts)
Super Bowl 33: Terrell Davis, Rd 6 Pick 196 (25 for 102, no TD)
Super Bowl 32: Terrell Davis, Rd 6 Pick 196 (30 for 157, 3 TDs)
Super Bowl 31: Dorsey Levens, Rd 5 Pick 149 (14 for 61, no TD)
Super Bowl 30: Emmitt Smith, Rd 1 Pick 17 (18 for 49, 2 TDs)

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