With the 9th Pick in the 2025 draft, who should the Saints select? (merged)
It’s sad. Kind of feels like we should be picking top 3.
It is sad. Perfect description. This has to be the most Saints thing of all time. To have a season like this where nothing goes right, coach is fired, injuries all over the place, and we're looking at the 10th overall pick. Good grief.
The worst part is that we could've been awful the easy way or the hard way. The easy way being you clean up the cap, get rid of some pricey vets, accumulate picks, and roll with young guys with an eye toward the future. The Saints chose the hard way by sacrificing the future to be mediocre/awful today. They stayed all in after Drew retired. They stayed all in when SP quit. They went even more all in with Jameis Winston after missing out on Deshaun Watson. They were convinced that all Winston needed was a raw LT and an elite #2 WR so they moved heaven and earth to get him just that.
This has been a catastrophic failure by the front office. Now we're looking at a situation where we might be the least desirable destination in the NFL. Who is going to want to come here if they have options? Not just coaches but players. No young franchise QB. Very little young talent to build around. A salary cap that looks like it has been run by a 14 year old kid playing Madden franchise mode.
Anyway, rant over. With the 10th pick the Saints select some rando that isn't a SSF favorite. At first we'll be like "wait, what" but then someone will post some highlights from Youtube and we'll all pretend like it was a great pick. "To get this guy at 10 is a steal! My mock draft 14.2 had him going in the top 5".