We all scratched our heads.

McCoy was a solid center (drafted 2nd round the year before) and Ruiz was also a center. McCoy was too undersized to be a guard even though most of us thought the plan was Ruiz at center and McCoy shifts to RG

The other options were all need too - Brandon aiyuk or tee Higgins (someone to pair with Michael Thomas), Jordan love (successor to Brees), Patrick queen (starting linebacker), etc.

We really fricked it up and then we doubled down with a 2nd contract instead of flipping him when teams inquired.

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Posted by hellsu

Northshore via Westbank

Member since Jan 2009

4146 posts

Posted on 8/20/25 at 12:09 am to htran90

If you google his pff score they mention that after he recovered from his injury last year that he had improved his pass blocking score significantly from game 8 through the end of the season. You would hope he would have picked up where he left off at least with his pass blocking.

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Posted by Sho Nuff

Oahu

Member since Feb 2009

13418 posts

Posted on 8/20/25 at 12:58 am to LSUPilot07

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Both Tee Higgins and Brandon Aiyuk were still available and Justin Jefferson had just been taken 2 picks before.

The Saints are really shite at drafting sometimes. All LSU fans knew Jets would be a stud, but I guess you can understand everyone else not being sure about that. So let's stick with them not trading up a few spots to get him before Minn. Higgins was an easy choice among others. Ruiz made no sense as a pick for us and the fact he sucks just rubs it in yearly.

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Posted by 3PieceSpicy

Metairie

Member since Jan 2021

7799 posts

Posted on 8/20/25 at 5:18 am to htran90

Good point. I have really tried not to look at the misses in the draft as to not piss me off lol.

The only 1 I've really let piss me off was not trading up for JJ and then spending more to trade up for Olave a year later. I wanted to kill people in the organization after seeing that chain of events.

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