[Merged] Saints Select Clemson DT Bryan Bresee

Saintaholic said

For a team that’s had an abnormal amount of bad luck in the injury department for several years now, I do find it odd that we decided to roll the dice and try our luck with this prospect.

Hopefully he works out, but anyone that’s denying that he doesn’t come with “availability baggage” has some serious black and gold blinders on.

If say, the Falcons, had picked this player, we’d all be saying the same thing in unison.

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Yeah I think most Saints fans understand there is an injury concern here. But without that injury concern he's not still on the board at 29. I'm one of those people who keeps up with the draft year around and I check out the way too early mock drafts. Bryan Bresee has been mocked way up there for a long time. A lot of it is simply hype because he was the #1 recruit in the country and the expectations for him at Clemson were out of this world. But some of it is because he's super talented.

To me this wasn't the Saints getting cute or trying to outthink the room. It was simply a case of drafting a player with immense upside at a position of need. They were able to get a late 1st round pick for SP and they decided to take a big swing with it. At the end of the 1st round teams are faced with the decision of playing it safe with a quality prospect or taking a risk on a big time prospect that fell due to injury/character concerns. So they swung hard in case they hit it. I can't fault them for that. Not at 29. Now had they traded up and drafted him in the top 15 then yeah, not great. But staying put and going for the HR, I'll allow it.