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When New Orleans Saints tight end Dallin Holker talked with NFL scouts and coaches this spring, they all wanted to know about one game.

The New Orleans Saints had become something of a pipeline for the Detroit Lions. It started with the 2021 hiring of Dan Campbell, the former Saints tight ends coach who in turn brought a slew of assistants with him. Then…

The New Orleans Saints will be busy running their rookie minicamp this time next week, and now we know which jersey numbers many of their new players will be wearing. But it isn’t just the first-year pros choosing new numbers. Veteran pickups like defensive end Chase Young and linebacker Willie Gay have chosen their jersey numbers, too. And a couple of players who were on the team last year have switched into new digits, like defensive tackle Khalen Saunders.

Expect more changes over the summer as players are shuffled on and off of the roster, freeing up coveted jersey numbers for others — it’s just one example, but there’s a good chance that second-round cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry won’t be wearing No. 34 in the fall. Incidentally, that’s the same number Marshon Lattimore wore as a rookie before moving to No. 23 over the summer, which he’s since made his own. Maybe McKinstry is hoping to do the same.

Here’s the full list of Saints players with new jersey numbers in 2024:

Jersey numbers have been assigned to the New Orleans Saints’ rookies.

The New Orleans Saints had three picks in the fifth round in the NFL Draft on Saturday. With the 175th overall pick, they selected Texas linebacker Jaylan Ford.

This was a good pickup for the Saints as Demario Davis is getting older, and the team lost Zack Baun in free agency. In his first meeting with the media, Ford said he looks up to Demario Davis.

“He’s one of the best linebackers in the league right now.” Ford said, “I’m just glad I get to have this opportunity.”

Ford spent three seasons with the Texas Longhorns. In that span, he played in 49 games (29 starts) with 287 tackles...

The New Orleans Saints drafted Pittsburgh WR Bub Means with the 170th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.

The Saints have a good pair of speed receivers with Chris Olave and Rashid Shaheed but continue looking to replace veteran Michael Thomas’ presence with a receiver who could make the heavily contested targets. New Orleans drafted 6’5 wide receiver A.T. Perry in the seventh round of last year's draft but continues to look for playmakers and depth at the position.

Means is 6’1 and weighed in at 212 pounds at the NFL combine while also running a 4.43 in the 40-yard dash.

The versatile...

The New Orleans Saints are in better shape after the 2024 NFL draft than they were before it — which is the goal every team has in mind for the annual selection event. But while some players on the team are in better standing than they were a week earlier, others may now find themselves on shakier ground.

So whose stock is up after the 2024 draft? Which Saints players’ stock is down, and who might be feeling some pressure with training camp on the horizon? There are players who made the team last year that may be left on the outside looking in come September. That’s what we’re seeking to answer in our first offseason stock report:

In this week’s poll question we asked which draft pick by the New Orleans Saints, other than their first round pick, were you most excited about.

After 699 votes, Alabama CB Kool-Aid McKinstry won with 59.8% of the vote. McKinstry was a borderline 1st round prospect that the Saints got near the top of the 2nd round. He comes at a position that is in desperate need of depth, as the Saints have been unable to get through a whole season without a starting corner missing significant time over the last few seasons. With arguably the best name in the draft, Kool-Aid comes in with the potential...

Even after drafting a cornerback in the NFL Draft, the New Orleans Saints went after another one in the free agent market.

Similarly to the last two second round picks the Saints have made, McKinstry may not sign his contract until training camp.

Dallin Holker was a talented tight end for Colorado State and now experts are eyeing he could make an early impact in the NFL.

The NFL has announced the schedule for the New Orleans Saints upcoming offseason workouts and minicamps for the 2024 season.

Organized Team Activities (OTAs) will be held on May 21st-23rd, May 28th-30th, and June 3rd-6th. Rookie minicamp will be held on May 10th-12th and mandatory minicamp will take place on June 11th-13th.

Per the Collective Bargaining Agreement, each club’s official, voluntary nine-week offseason program is conducted in three phases.

Phase Three consists of the final four weeks of the program. Teams may conduct a total of 10 days of organized team practice activity...

We won’t have to wait long for the New Orleans Saints’ 2024 draft class to try out their new uniforms. The NFL announced practice dates for all 32 teams’ upcoming rookie minicamp, organized team activities, and mandatory minicamp sessions.

Here’s when the Saints will be next reporting for work:

Public access to these sessions is usually limited to a few practice dates in June, so stay tuned for official word on when fans will be invited to attend. All of these workouts will be held at the Saints’ practice facility in Metairie before they move operations to UC-Irvine’s campus in Southern...

Jordan Reid makes way-too-early predictions for every pick of next year's first round, including a landing spot for Shedeur Sanders.

Don’t say the New Orleans Saints aren’t willing to spend big to get the players they covet. The Saints guaranteed $235,000 of their contract with rookie Dallin Holker, per ESPN’s Katherine Terrell, making the former Colorado State tight end their highest-paid undrafted free agent this year. The deal includes a $10,000 signing bonus. He’s essentially guaranteed a spot on the practice squad, but the expectation should be for him to make the 53-man roster outright.

So why is he such an appealing prospect? The raw numbers aside (Holker caught 64 passes for 766 yards last season, scoring 6...

The 2024 NFL draft is behind us and all eyes are turning to a busy slate of offseason workouts for the New Orleans Saints, all of which leads up to training camp, preseason, and a difficult round of roster cuts before the season starts in September. So which players on the team right now do you see making it to Week 1? How many were on the team last year? In our post-draft projections, just 36 of the 53 players on the opening-day roster a year ago are returning for 2024.

Some players are dealing with serious injuries. All-Pro Ryan Ramczyk’s career is in jeopardy and we aren’t going to assume he’ll make the 53-man roster in Week 1; linebacker Nephi Sewell is recovering from his own knee injury suffered in December, and both will probably start the season on one of the reserve lists.

There are still some tough decisions ahead. In this projection, we have the Saints moving on from one of their former first-round picks (Payton Turner) while also shaking up their kicking situation on special teams (swapping Matthew Hayball for Lou Hedley). We tried to stick close to the numbers the Saints took into Week 1 last year, but we made a few tweaks to represent the state of the roster as it currently stands. Here’s who made the cut: