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Carl, Duke Manyweather and Brandon Thorn, the two OL gurus of the league who work with all of these guys, have Fuaga penned as an inside guy.

Thorn had him as his OL6, Manyweather comps him to Mike iupati, who was a great guard but a guard nonetheless.

Do they think that his best position is guard or that he can't play OT on the NFL level? if it's the former, and they think that his best position in a vacuum is at guard, but could still be a serviceable to good NFL OT, I'm ok with that. Because he won't be playing in a vacuum, he'll be playing on the Saints' OL, and we are in desperate need for a talent upgrade everywhere but Center.

I'm fine with them just taking the best OL available on their board and figuring out the positions later. Hell, maybe Saldiveri takes a huge leap and develops into a starting RT and Fuaga winds up at LG. And we piece LT together in '24 with Penning and Peat and keep drafting BPA OTs in whatever round until we hit.

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Does this worry you?

Well, sure, but what's the alternative? PFF had Fuaga as their 13th highest rated player on their big board, so it's not crazy that he may have been the BPA on the Saints at 14. Btw, I am no expert on any of this. At all. I enjoy the draft process, but don't deep dive like a lot of you. I have no idea who the guys are that you mentioned, for example.

And I just picked the PFF site at random. Haven't really looked anywhere else. And I don't know how much weight to give their insight. Maybe they're brilliant. Maybe they're horrible. But I didn't go digging for somebody(ies) to make me feel better about the pick or to try to convince anybody else to feel better about it either. I literally googled "top ranked '24 NFL Draft OTs" and PFF was the 1st site that came up, and I posted what they had. I wasn't looking for any confirmation bias. I would have posted the same thing if they had him ranked the 7th best OT and #50 overall. I just used it as a jumping off point for discussion.

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:12 am to Hot Carl

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Well, sure, but what's the alternative?

The next 2 picks would have been nice, and both are also need positions.

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Posted by GynoSandberg

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Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:14 am to Hot Carl

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Do they think that his best position is guard or that he can't play OT on the NFL level?

They’ll never say he 100% can’t play OT. You just don’t hear any question about Alt, Latham, and Fashanu playing OT. But given what was available at 14, you kinda have to be 100% certain the guy is an OT. You still need guard help, so worst case scenario isn’t horrible. But still..

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Saldiveri takes a huge leap and develops into a starting RT

I think Saldiveri has been tagged inside for good. Namely bc of his arm length. Just going off his practice reps with us.

Guess who Fuaga’s closest comp is based of size and athleticism?