I know people say the Saints won't get the #3 pick back in a trade, I understand where they are coming from. If, they somehow get that pick they better not send anything back. I think the amount of net compensation the Saints are looking for, at a minimum, is about 1,300 draft points. That would be pick #10 overall.
Arizona has pick #3, 2,200 points.
Second Round #34 overall, 560 points.
Third Round #66 overall, 260 points.
Fourth Round, #98 overall, 108 points.
If you consider their 2024 1st round pick, and assume it is pick #16 (middle of the round), you have to take that present value as 420 points, pick #48 in the second round. NFL teams almost always take a future pick at the value of the round earlier in the present year.
Get close to 1,300 points WITHOUT using pick #3 overall:
Cardinals Second Round Pick in 2023 (560 points), Cardinals Third Round Pick in 2023 (260 points) Cardinals First in 2024 (420 points, "worth" a mid round second round pick in 2023) Total of 1,240 points.
If it goes down with Cardinals, this is my prediction: 2023, 2nd and 3rd, 2024, 1st.
Saints need to give NOTHING back, not a future 4th rounder, NOTHING! Saints could likely flip that 2023 2nd and 3rd (820 points), into something around pick #21-22 (800-780 points) overall in 2023. Loomis loves to trade up. So then, you could say, the Saints traded Sean Payton for...TWO first round picks, lol.