Draft steals

cajunman9 said

I said all along that Zack Baun was my favorite player for our pick #24.
I do like that we picked up Cesar Ruiz. Ruiz and Baun made the most sense I just thought that Ruiz would go late first round to mid second round. We had no shot at Ruiz with my strategy unless we traded into the mid second round.
So, I am very pleased with our SAINTS draft. To get Adam Troutman was a super added bonus.
We had a great draft.

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I think we had to draft Ruiz at 24. I don't believe he makes it past Seattle if we would have traded back to the early 2nd.
I think the Saints probably hoped Jefferson, Murphy or Kinlaw would have fallen to them but would take Ruiz as a back up.
I do believe we got lucky to draft Baun where we got him. I liked him best out of the 2nd tier LBs in the draft. He may wind up being the only three down backer out of the 3.