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

DSnfla said
They debunk your premise that fat guys should only be drafted in the 3rd or later rds. The Lions have had a tremendous bounty of high draft picks, they started out building their OL and DL and they drafted well, we did not. That does not mean that you don't build your lines 1st and the best OL fat guys come in the 1st and 2nd rds. The Lions were ABLE to pick Gibbs and Williams and LaPorta because they not only had all those picks to address other areas but because they built their OL and DL FIRST

To counter that, Ruiz = meh. Penning = meh. Fuaga hasn't been bad, but not as good as most expected. With our scouting, that doesn't necessarily work, either. The Saints just need to get good players wherever they can get them, because they've done a poor job over the last few years.