2024 Mock 1st Round and a complete Saints Draft

Jesse Custer said
Still blows my mind that fans on this very forum were blaming Penning against the Packers when they were rolling an extra tackle to Ramczyk's side and he was still getting schooled.

Ram had probably his worst year last year, after a noticeable dropoff over the past few years. But Penning was an absolute embarassment at LT last year. I mean borderline useless at the position. There's no other way to put it. Benching him was and still in in retrospect the right call. I will still swear up and down he still has the talent/ability to be a good lineman, but he has basically everything to prove at this point.

draftfreak said
1986 - we drafted Jim Dombrowski in the 1st rd. to play LT. He sucked at LT and was beaten out by Kevin Haverdink in 1989 for the starting LT spot. He moved inside to LG and was really good at LG. In 2015, we drafted Andrus Peat in the 1st to be our LT of the future. He ended up being at a sort of solid LG for the past 9 seasons.

"Too big?" What does that even mean? Peat is 6'7 330lbs. Ramczyk was a LT in college who shifted to RT as a rookie in the NFL. I could go on with a long, long list of LTs that moved to RT and vice versa. I still have no clue what "too big" means.

I feel like there's a narrative that's pervaded the past like 10 years or so that "squatty, big and strong" = guard and "long, strong and quick" = tackle. Historically this hasn't been the case, especially for guards. Just cuz a guy is over 6'4" doesn't mean he can't play guard.