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

Always how it goes when you draft for need. In 2022 Jermaine Johnson and Trent McDuffie were ranked ahead of Penning but we drafted for need and those guys have been Pro Bowlers and All Pros.

In 2023 we reached for Foskey so we could get a DE and he failed to record a defensive snap in the last meaningless game of the season. Brian Branch was considered a first round talent went 5 picks later and just made his first pro bowl. Not a single ranking had Foskey ahead of Branch.

We've been drafting more and more for immediate needs because we haven't been able to fill them in FA and it's been slowly killing this team.
You didn't see our board so you have no idea how we ranked players , So called draft experts player ranking are almost always different than teams