With the 9th Pick in the 2025 draft, who should the Saints select? (merged)

tyler735 said

If you’re hitting 21+ mph at all, you have breakaway speed. Doing it more than twice as much as the next player in the entire nation is insane.

Read my prior post to him. They went to the National Championship last year. Jeanty had a 50 yard touchdown against them during that season. It was a continued response since it seemed to get ignored when he said he never showed breakaway speed against legit competition. Hence highlighting and providing the clips of him doing so against Washington in 2023 and Oregon this year.

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That's fair. I don't doubt that he has breakaway speed but that's really of limited value as an NFL RB since it's difficult to get an opportunity to use breakaway speed as a RB in the NFL. I think for NFL RBs quickness, contact balance, and power are more important. Jeanty clearly has power, but I'm not sure his quickness and contact balance is at an elite level. It think he's going to be a very good player, but I'm not sure he's going to be an elite player and I would rather trade down for more picks and take a RB later that might not be as good as Jeanty but would have better value than Jeanty at #10.

Of course, if you think Jeanty is going to be an elite NFL RB in the mold of Faulk, Sanders, LT, etc. you would want to take him at #10 and would be right to do so. I just don't think he's at that level and would, therefore, prefer to trade down than take him if he is BPA.

If you have a complete team the way the Lions were two years ago, maybe Jeanty is the final piece, but he's not the final piece for this team and there should be more value elsewhere.