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

ELLIASJWILLIAMS said

That’s fine. If I were evaluating this team, I would view it as it were in week 18.

Meaning your projected #1 and #2 RB were both hurt. So if that remained true, how would you support Rattler? You’d still need to draft an RB. Does it have to be Jeanty @ 9…no..but should we draft one within first 3 rounds? Yes! Should the presence of a 30 year old RB and an oft injured 24 year old RB change that view? No

Is RB a luxury position? Arguably but Henry has the entire league rethinking RB value, especially in a league littered with young QBs.

The RB position became devalued when the QB era took over. Now that most of those guys retired, RB value is going back up.

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Thank you. RB position value goes considerably back up when you're getting less than average QB play. Some fans are still stuck in the Brees, Brady, Rodgers QB era but really there was only Burrow that even came close to 5k and he threw the ball 70-100 times more than everybody else.

With worse QB play running the ball becomes even more important in protecting the QB and taking time off the clock to protect the defense. With a better run game we're not having to trot a tired defense out in the last 2 minutes to just give up a DPI and lose the game.

So not only would Jeanty likely be the most talented prospect available but he'd account for a considerable chunk of our offense for the next 8 years. I fail to see how this is even an argument.