Saints met with top QB prospect Cam Ward [Schefter: CLE, NYG or maybe Saints have to make an offer compelling enough for #1 pick]

AdamWest said

But now you're in the weeds of if he's the right prospect or not because most of the talk of not doing it is built in... it not working. The Saints LOVE Ward, probably more than any team in the league. They loved Mahomes too and they waited then (not saying Ward is Mahomes as I said back then that Mahomes would be the best QB in the league). Shrugs. I'm never gonna fault a team for trying to address the most important position in football / sports.

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I don't have a problem with the Saints making a big move to draft Ward if they like him that much. But, given how much the Titans appear to like him, the cost would be very high. Which is fine, but they damn well better have a really good plan for how they are going to build a team around Ward without multiple premium picks because their mid-round picks have been very underwhelming.

We don't have close to the roster that K.C. had when they moved up to get Mahomes.

The one thing that could make the cost reasonable enough is either including Olave in a trade with the Titans or trading Olave to the Pats to move up to #4 and then moving from #4 to #1. But that will depend on how the Titans or the Pats feel about Olave's injury history. Carr could have been a good piece to a trade with the Titans to reduce the draft pick cost, but I don't think we can absorb the cap hit of a pre-June 1 trade.