Saints Need an Offensive Weapon

It would be unwise to evaluate the offensive draft needs based on the last part of the season. In 2024 from the point in which Erik McCoy got hurt against the Eagles, the offense went into a streak of healthish skill position players but no interior offensive line with rookie tackles to later in the year no starting quarterback and no starting skill position players (Kamara, Hill, Olave, and or Shaheed) but most of the interior offensive line was back. The team lacks depth across the board but there is an offense somewhere in there. The defense on the other hand is just old and been a litany of bad decisions to not keep the right young players.

This draft has to focus on where the age is on this team and that age has to find its way off the roster in 2025 and begin to heal the salary cap ramifications.
The Saints traded away our best defensive player. The Lattimore trade reminds me of the Willie Roaf trade. We trade our best player on the team at his low point of injury.
It was dumb then and dumb now IMO but maybe it was mandatory because the cap is the worst in the league.
We have Taylor and Mckinstry and maybe can resign Adebo at what was the deepest spot on the roster at corner.

Upfront Cam is a hall of famer but needs to go to the booth for the cap number he is holding. To me we need a defensive edge rusher as the number one pick.
Next age is Tyrann. This team needs two safeties. We let Chauncey Gardner Johnson and Marcus Williams out the building. Marcus Maye was a disaster. If Tyrann was evaluated with no name on the back of his jersey and not from NOLA his on the field performance does not validate his cap number.
At linebacker Demario has lost a step but is the heart of the team and I can see another year but we need another linebacker particularly if Willie Gay is a free agent.

This defense needs speed at edge and safety big time. We have to eat the cap hit on Ramcyzk. We are not going to be good in 2025. We can hope for a mediocre team that competes in a bad division, but we are in a multiple year rebuild.
I think we should try to re-sign MVS if he is open to staying but those couple of games of long TDs may have priced him out of New Orleans. Olave and Shaheed are starting caliber WRs. They just have to stay on the field. We have never seen a three wide receiver set of Olave, Shaheed, and MVS but that is light years above the undrafted free agent parade that we have seen the last part of the 2024 season at receiver.

I also would predict the Saints keeping Kubiak at OC and signing a defensive head coach and replacing the entire defensive staff. That screams draft a build around player on defense with your first rounder.