Payton Turner: How Do you like the Pick?

Now the pressure has really increased on Loomis and Ireland - after making a “semi luxury” in the first round they now must absolutely nail each and every pick in the later rounds. After some thought Turner’s pick does make some sense - Cam Jordan is entering his 10th season, Marcus Davenport is talented but frequently injured, the team let Trey Hendrickson walk (in retrospect what a strange move to let him go and then use a super valuable 1st round pick to replace him).

This isn’t like the Saints teams of the recent past - those teams went into the draft with their rosters basically complete so the team could make luxury picks. This team has some serious holes that need filling at CB, LB, and WR. Now those must be filled using day two and three picks. It would have helped to trade out of the first completely and then trade up in the second to get Turner.