With the 9th Pick in the 2025 draft, who should the Saints select? (merged)
You are not... at least not this year... The point is... We have drafted OL and DL in every draft in the 1st and/or 2nd round for the last decade... 4/5ths of our OL are made up of those picks just since 2019....
At some point... the "fix" has to be that the guys you drafted already... ARE THE FIX! Doubling down on failures has gotten us no-flipping-where...
The cliche is that we somehow have to "keep doing what we are doing" even though it has yet to produce anything resembling a NFL offense...
But we aren't always drafting OL/DL in the first and to the extent we very often do, that's also true of every other NFL team. We have mostly for the last 4 or 5 years because before the last 3 years all we really needed under Payton was a Guard and a DE. And for the last 3 years we have needed to rebuild the OL after losing our staring LT, RT, and LG.
And again, I want BPA. If that's Jeanty and we can't trade down, fine take him, but the better scenario for this team is for McMillian, Graham, Carter, or maybe even Campbell to fall to #9. I doubt any of them will, but I think that would be a better situation for this team.
I get that you think Jeanty is a generational talent, but I also think that your position is that the pick at #9 has to be a skill player even if he isn't BPA. I think that's a really bad way to draft.
But, maybe you truly believe that Jeanty will be BPA when we pick. And if so that's cool. I don't personally think he's a generational RB. I'd certainly rank him behind Bijan and Saquon. And if that's the case, then I don't think he will be BPA at #9.