Brandon Staley is Defensive Coordinator

Ti Rider said
The Saints finally catch a break this draft is loaded with 3-4 DEs and rush LBs.

On paper your D doesn’t look too bad. But Young is all but gone. He was drawing interest before the increase in the cap was released. Now he’ll get $$$ on the open market. And Cam…..love the guy but it wouldn’t be shocking if he were released.

I think Young will be back. He’s a young pass rusher that we need. He will get probably around 12-13 million a year on a 3-4 year deal, which we can easily do while lowering his current cap number. Cam I believe takes a paycut to stick around.

SAINTSFAN said
Tanoh I think is a FA and not sure Shepherd worth keeping around. May be an opportunity to upgrade.

Tanoh is a FA, but he won’t be anything more than a minimum contract signing. Shepard wouldn’t save much by releasing him this year, might as well keep him around for another season as depth imo.

GeneHansen said
Saunders looks more like a NT than he plays like a NT.

I think we need an upgrade at that spot.

Saunders can take up a double team, that’s all we need from him. Sure that spot can use an upgrade, but so can alot of spots that we cannot upgrade all in one offseason. We also have Ridgeway who looks to be a natural NT and is young and could be that guy, along with Boyd who would both be backups or even starters if they outplay Saunders.