Saints Draft Re-do 2020

I believe this is correct. However, why force a pick if need, when the best football player in the nation (Johnathan Taylor) was available and Tee Higgins? Not saying that Ruiz hasn’t been a good addition, but there were ready to go players on deck and we went with a “need” pick. I dislike thinking about hypotheticals, but i sometimes wonder what could’ve been in the 2020 playoffs, if we had Taylor or Higgins?!?!

I'll always wonder if Payton didn't go into the draft knowing that he was going to retire after the 2021 season so he just drafted guys at need positions to fill holes for one last shot at making the playoffs. It seems likely it was short term thinking and not thinking about the future that led the team to draft for need and only draft 4 players.