RB Ashton Jeanty as the Saints 1st pick?

Judge_Smails said

Sanders dragged the Lions to what was at that time their only NFC championship game appearance ever in 1991, with a backup QB starting all but the first couple of games that season and Wayne Fontes at HC.

It was the terrible owners and management that made Detroit bad for decades, but Sanders was so good in his prime that he made them a contender for a brief window, as a RB.

The NFL values RBs differently now, but if you have a chance to draft a guy (even at RB) that is most likely to be the best player on field every week, you do it.

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Fair enough there. I question our management these days as well though. I just don't think we are a RB away from being relevant. And I don't think the NFL is the same NFL as when Sanders Emmitt and Walter Payton were on the field. I put a post about SB champs, and none of them had elite RBs, or at least RBs that were top 10 in rushing yards. You need options on offense across the board.

We sort of tried this by trading an entire draft for Ricky Williams.

If we were KC, sure its a no brainer to take Jeanty. And we wont be worse off if we did draft him. Im not opposed to it. I just think we can find RBs easier than we can fill the massive amount of holes we have across the board and the depth we need to create.