re: NFL Draft Thread

Going to grind some AJ Espenesa tape today. Wonder if he's a guy who will be available at 24

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would be an incredibly dumb move

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I'm not saying they should do that I just thought it was an interesting scenario. Lamb is gonna be very, very good though. He's drawing a lot of comparisons to DeAndre Hopkins.

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Would be an incredibly dumb move to give up that much for a WR in an extremely deep WR draft.

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Not if they think he’s better than others and a fit for the scheme.

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Saints Wire had us in a mock yesterday swapping firsts with Cleveland (no. 10) and giving up our first and third next year to draft Ceedee Lamb

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Going to grind some AJ Espenesa tape today. Wonder if he's a guy who will be available at 24

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I think Epenesa will be a really good player but I don’t think he fits our scheme. I think he is more of a 3-4 end bc of his speed. He ran 5.1 at the combine and may struggle to keep containment in a 4-3 defense.

Yetur Gross-Matos is a guy I like that will fit our system better. Would make for a really good rotation with Cam Jordan and Davenport.

Lots of Pittman talk on here. He had the highest Wonderlic score of WRs.

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Pittman is a risky 1st round pick.

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I don’t think we can look at it this way this year. We have no idea where teams have these guys rated. It’s all over the place every year but it’s even more wildly skewed. Because you think Pittman is risky doesn’t mean other teams view it that way.

I read an article on the Athletic where one scout thinks Epenesa is a fourth rounder and that others feel the same. Some guys are going to seriously fall this draft and some are going to be taken a lot higher than what mocks or the experts are saying

Kiper brought up Pete Guerrerio as a sleeper at RB yesterday.

Fantasy drafts are all about avoiding risk in the first round. This isn’t a fantasy draft. There are risks with absolutely every pick almost every season in the NFL draft. Hell, Jerry Jeudy, Isaiah Simmons and Burrow could be busts.


The dude tested well on the wonderlic (which is outdated and useless) but he did well at the combine, has size and speed and had the stats and tape to back it up. I don’t think NFL teams are going to base their decision to draft him off one obscure statistic when everything else is solid. Outside of Jeudy, Lamb, Ruggs and Jefferson, the rest of the WRs are kind of all lumped in together. I’m not advocating for Pittman, I just don’t think any of us should come on here with one statistic and claim it as a determining factor as whether or not a player is risky, especially in a draft where information is scarce for both FO and analysts

In fact, if I had my choice, we wouldn’t take a WR in the first at all but if we did I’d go Mims or Aiyuk.

But I also think if the Saints take Pittman then the FO has earned everyone’s full confidence. How could they not? Sure Pittman might be a bust but there are statistics backing Payton’s drafting of offensive players and more often than not, they hit.