Rookie report card: Grading the Saints 2024 Draft

St. Widge said

He played a pretty good game Sunday, but his last few starts we solid but not great. I would hope that he gets significantly better next year. Although, I will say that he often looked better than Taylor as an outside CB. I really hope they can work out a new deal with Adebo so they can move Taylor back into the slot and let Kool-Aid develop at outside CB. Taylor might be able to play boundary CB, but he was starting to look really good in the Slot and I think that may be his best position.

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I'm on the fence about Kool-Aid and Taylor on their spots.

I saw, what looked like lacksidasical play from Kool Aid at times on the boundary. Sometimes he looked like he made business decisions on tackles, etc. When he's in coverage however, I liked what I saw from him technique wise. I just didn't always like that he looked lazy.

Meanwhile Alontae in the slot to me is a missed tackle waiting to happen. I feel like on the boundary his propensity for bigger hits are less exposed when he misses because the sideline is an extra defender. When it happens in the MOF it usually results in longer gains.