Tankathon: Saints top 5 draft pick watch-Updated

Saint1977 said
We can’t go quarterback because the top will be gone and we can’t move on from Carr/ Spencer in 2025.

Don’t need a running back or offensive tackle. Too low a pick for a guard or center.

So we trade back for a late 1st round and take a (tight end) and a 2026 1st round pick.

I think we would be best served loading up for 2026 with draft capital to get our franchise quarterback. The franchise will have to rejuvenate fan interest by then.

I approach each season with optimism but 2025 IMHO is a write-off.

I have no idea why you’d want a TE in the 1st unless it’s a Bowers clone, and we all know there isn’t one of those in this draft. The only other position I wouldn’t want at #10 or wherever else we end up picking is a RB bc we already have our RB1 for the next couple years in AK, who proved she’s still got it.

I also have no idea why you wouldn’t want us to draft a LG with pick 10 either if the fo believes him to be an all-pro caliber player. We desperately need to improve on the OL, and the only player we have coming back next year who could start there is Saldiveri, and he didn’t exactly light it up this year.

I would like us to trade back (if there’s a suitor of course which is no guarantee) into the mid/late teens - let’s just say with a team like Seattle who’ll be picking around 18. I would hope they’d be willing to part with their 2nd and 4th this year. Ideally though, I’d hope a team that makes the playoffs and gets bounced in the first round with an early/mid 20s pick feels like they are 1 player away, and they’d be willing to give us something like we gave for Davenport: a 1st next year and a 3rd this year.