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

WhoDat?DrewDat said
That's actually not how PFF works. A 50 is an even grade of positive and negative plays.

Anything over 50 means on tape they have more positive than negative plays. So technically Fuaga had far more ups than downs.

Bresee is an example of someone who was far more downs than ups. (218/219 iDL agains the run, literally pathetic)

But let's put everything into perspective here are all the 1st round OTs.

5th overall Alt: 77.6 (Right tackle)
14th overall Fuaga: 65.7 (Left tackle)
20th overall Fautanu: 64.4 (Right Tackle)
7th overall JC Latham: 61.8 (Left Tackle)
11th overall Olu: 61.2 (Left Tackle)
18th overall Mims: 57.8 (Right Tackle)
29th overall Guyton: 49.4 (Left Tackle)

So of all the first round OTs, Fuaga was graded the 2nd highest and the 1st highest rated LT.

Didn't say he graded out at a 49th overall out of 81 qualifiers. Fuaga graded out at a 65.7 overall. He was the 57th ranked pass blocker just for reference. In comparison, Joe Alt graded out 23rd overall. There were 48 OT's (RT and LT) that graded out better than he did). He was 49th out of 64 tackles in the league last year. Not sure what grades you're looking at He was very uneven last year and I'm still of the camp he's a better OG or RT.