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

St. Geezy said

Definitely agree on that. The issue is that what happens is that the team won’t go out of its way to find a better player to trump a player whose salary is that high.

Now, if they happen to stumble upon a cheap free agent that suddenly has a light bulb come on and gets great, or get lucky and strike gold on an immediate Pro Bowl level rookie guard out of Bloomsberg College that you got in the middle of the draft, that’s a different story.

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Agreed. That's the very likely outcome - 'we already spent the resources on our now RG, can't spend anymore $$$ or draft capital to replace - unless we find lightning in a bottle'.

Either way, whether we find lightning in a bottle or do spend limited $$$ or draft capital on RG, Ruiz would only ever become backup center (and LG/RG) if he gets out-performed. I suppose it's theoretically possible that we bring in a bona fide top 3 RG who can only ever play RG (not happening) but then would probably push Ruiz to compete at LG with whomever.