Saints sign WR Brandin Cooks to a 2-year, $13 million deal

Snakehead said

We've also seen the CBs getting bigger to deal with the bigger WRs, these same CBs normally have difficulties with smaller WRs. He could be creating mismatches. I haven't looked at the CB starters in the NFC South, but I am curious if that has factored in.

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CB's in Staley's defense have to be big. He bunches the Dline and LB's up over the ball snap to force things outside, whether its a run play or short pass. Staley really, really tries to force those plays to the outside since outside plays are harder to execute then between the numbers. So your CB's have to be big because they're going to have RB's, TE's and screens to contend with consistently. Your LB's also have to be fast, and able to range sideline to sideline which likely scraps players like Jay Higgins being drafted (his 40 was a huge disappointment. I was expecting more like a 4.65'-4.7).