With the 9th Pick in the 2025 draft, who should the Saints select? (merged)
Again, never said don’t do that. Just said we don’t have to do it at 9.
Fine. Trade back 1 spot with the Bears and take him.
This notion is absolutely silly. The entire point of drafting in the 1st round, especially the top 15 picks is to take a franchise player that can carry the team to some significant degree. Just because above average RB's are found in later rounds every now and then doesn't mean franchise ones are as if RB is some kind of candy isle. We're not going to skip taking a franchise QB in the top 10 just because some were drafted in the 5th round at some point.
Look no further then the 2018 draft. Only 1 RB in that draft is relevant today, and he dang near came close to breaking the rushing record. And he just so happened to be drafted 2nd overall.
The idea of "you don't take X position until X amount of picks as passed" is absolutely silly. I don't care if the player is a Center and he's a human version of King Kong blowing everyone over you take em.
I swear some people are so incredibly stuck in the past its silly. We don't have an elite QB anymore. We gotta have someone who can carry the offense and Kamara won't be able to do it any longer as early as this season, and most likely not at all the season after.