Minter & Reid
I think you are just too big of a LSU homer ......... Minter and Reid are nowhere close to what we need to strengthen our defense ....... Reid is the extended version of Roman Harper ....
Yeah, the pick at #15 should clearly be Tavon Austin. :9:
While I don't think Minter or Reid play positions of real need for this team, they will both likely be good players in the NFL. Reid is faster and has better ball skills than Harper, but who knows if he will have the instincts and work ethic to be better than Harper. Minter is a bit limited athletically, but as a 3-4 ILB he should be the same tackling machine that he was at LSU. He will likely be weak against he pass, but he will make tackles.
So, while wanting them both is likely some LSU homerism, neither would be a bad pick even if they are not positions of need. And, I wonder why a bit of homersim for LSU is such a bad thing. I mean, the team is from NOLA and the LA part of that stands for Louisiana. And, the flagship public University in Louisiana is LSU. So, folks who are Saints fans and don't happen to also be LSU fans, probably need to get used to a bit of homerism for the largest school in the state where the team is located.
And, I'm sure the mountaineer dude and the USM, Tulane and La Tech people around here have just as much homerism for the guys from their schools who are NFL caliber. It's just that they simply don't have as many as LSU does and they can't seem to get over that. I mean, if Collings didn't go to USM, would there really be that much talk about him on this board? If he went to the University of Southern Oregon, maybe ten people on this board would even know who he is.
In short (heh), get over it.