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

Infoman said
Again, neither would have helped this year. Fuaga didn’t make the line great and didn’t stop us from losing 12 games. Guys like Bowers are super star building blocks for the future. You have to get them and are more valuable in today’s NFL than fat guys. The only thing more valuable than super star offensive play makers are franchise QBs. That’s the point. Draft fat guys from rounds 3 on…. Get superstar offensive players and franchise QBs in rounds 1 and 2.

The best teams in the NFL fall to pieces when the lose their all world playmakers…. But seem to survive a fat guy being out for a while. It’s not coincidence. It’s points.

Your logic is unsound. And history proves it. I'm not saying that you don't need playmakers but without those " Fat Guys" and much more good ones are found in the 1st 3 rnds and very few good ones are found in rds 4-7 the "Playmakers" make little difference. Barry Sanders did nothing but rack up stats without the fat guys. Calvin Johnson even with Bradford did nothing. Walter Payton did nothing until he got some good fat guys

You know why the Lions playmakers make plays? because they have good fat guys that they got in the 1st 3 rds almost all in the 1st

That's not to mention the fat guys on the defensive side of the ball that are game changers that sack or stop the playmakers. KC probably does not win last yrs SB without Jones, one of those fat guys

Denver won SBs with not so great skilled players and very good fat guys

Your simplistic premise is flawed because you will find few good fat guys in the rnds 3-7, and if all you draft are skilled players in the 1st 2 rds all you'll have is guys that have good stats and very few wins