Alert! Patriots trade DT Davon Godchaux to the Saints for 2026 7th round pick (102 Viewers)

[saint_drago]

I love it. I've been tough on the front office the past few years but moves like this are Loomis at his best. Address major needs with trades and free agency so you can go into the draft with the ability to go BPA. You don't want have a lot of unknowns heading into the draft especially with a new scheme. Godchaux has been starting in the NFL for the past 8 years so you trade him for almost nothing and you head into next year knowing that at a bare minimum you have a starting caliber player.

It will be fun to watch the pieces come together in the front 7. I haven't been this excited about a scheme change since Gregg Williams and replaced Gary Gibbs and his bend and then break defense. Looking forward to a more exotic, versatile defense. Just give me as much speed as possible on the field. I'd love to see some youth as well. If you look at the depth chart on D you'll see that even in their prime these older guys were never exactly fleet of foot.

 

[RaisingTheBar]

Love this move. Any 7th round pick we drafted this year likely wasn’t going to amount to anything even if they made the team. Godchaux will make an immediate impact.

 

[Rouxble]

Godchaux's snaps by alignment:



I wonder if they keep Saunders after this trade, with a post June 1 cut we could clear nearly $4m in the summer.

 

[livefromDC]

I love it. I've been tough on the front office the past few years but moves like this are Loomis at his best. Address major needs with trades and free agency so you can go into the draft with the ability to go BPA. You don't want have a lot of unknowns heading into the draft especially with a new scheme. Godchaux has been starting in the NFL for the past 8 years so you trade him for almost nothing and you head into next year knowing that at a bare minimum you have a starting caliber player.

It will be fun to watch the pieces come together in the front 7. I haven't been this excited about a scheme change since Gregg Williams and replaced Gary Gibbs and his bend and then break defense. Looking forward to a more exotic, versatile defense. Just give me as much speed as possible on the field. I'd love to see some youth as well. If you look at the depth chart on D you'll see that even in their prime these older guys were never exactly fleet of foot.

Yeah, there was this thought floating around that the team will be focusing on the salary cap and managing the current roster of talent within it. Perhaps driven by the minimal amount of changes we saw with the last coaching change people aren't expecting the Saints to be active, but that was a special case. Dennis Allen was essentially a continuation of the previous regime. Since he helped create that roster, you could expect him not to change it very much (except for the soul crushing DB cuts or trades right before the seasons started, he loved that for some reason).

Not to toot my own horn, but I've said it a few times now, we should expect to see these type of changes throughout free agency. Again, if I had to guess, this is just the beginning of an active, though perhaps not blockbuster, free agency period for the Saints. The team isn't going to look like it did last year. They're not waiting to reshape the roster after winning some salary cap olympics. They're making moves aimed at getting players better players not salary cap space.

 

[Mr. Coach Klein]

Godchaux's snaps by alignment:



I wonder if they keep Saunders after this trade, with a post June 1 cut we could clear nearly $4m in the summer.

Thanks, I saw a couple people saying 34 DE and that sounded incorrect. 6'3 330 is definitely 0/1 tech.

 

[B4YOU]

Godchaux's snaps by alignment:



I wonder if they keep Saunders after this trade, with a post June 1 cut we could clear nearly $4m in the summer.

Shepherd is 3.6M and Saunders is 3.2M savings as a Post-June 1 cut. I think one of the two are gone.

 

[Det. Brees]

T aking solid steps to build that 3-4

 

[LifeForceDave]

Love it, even if it just ends up being depth or rotational, the kind of move we need to do to make the roster better.

 

[St. Geezy]

Yeah, there was this thought floating around that the team will be focusing on the salary cap and managing the current roster of talent within it. Perhaps driven by the minimal amount of changes we saw with the last coaching change people aren't expected the Saints to be active, but that was a special case. Dennis Allen is essentially a continuation of the previous regime. Since he helped create that roster, you could expect him not to change it very much (except for the soul crushing DB cuts or trades right before the seasons started, he loved that for some reason).

Not to toot my own horn, but I've said it a few times now, we should expect to see these type of changes throughout free agency. Again, if I had to guess, this is just the beginning of an active, though perhaps not blockbuster, free agency period for the Saints. The team isn't going to look like it did last year. They're not waiting to reshape the roster after winning some salary cap olympics. They're making moves aimed at getting players better players not salary cap space.

Loomis said so himself that we are going to be active and aggressive in free agency this year. You’re right; this is just the beginning.

 

[webster]

Shepherd is 3.6M and Saunders is 3.2M savings as a Post-June 1 cut. I think one of the two are gone.

We should keep Saunders, he is a solid player.

 

[MG3n2K5]

Shepherd is 3.6M and Saunders is 3.2M savings as a Post-June 1 cut. I think one of the two are gone.

Nathan Shepherd, Khalen Saunders, John Ridgeway III, Khristian Boyd.
Don't see much 3-4 positional flexibility with these guys, expect 2-3 of these guys to be gone by the end of training camp. with Shepherd amd/or Saunders cut in the next couple days.

 

[St.Dan]

Busy dad on most weekends, so just now seeing this.

Put this down as a good sign they're wanting to rebuild starting in the trenches like I've said since the offseason began. This is also the first move toward making the options at 9 much wider than they'd be without this move.

 

[SweetT]

First: this is giving me that low key 2006 Jeff Faine / Hollis Thomas 'improve the team core through low cost trades' warm & fuzzy feeling.
Second: it gives the LSU section a local player to cheer for
Third: Best Nawlins name since Delvin Breaux

Yup. These are smart type of moves. Not the blockbuster transactions that every fan hopes to see, but smart considering everything in totality with the situation

 

[soggymoss84]

According to Triplett its a 2026 7th round pick

 

[No2DC]

Good news - Seems like the run stuffer we have been missing.

Bad News - He will count $3.2 Billion vs the cap in 2054.

We'll just get to restructure and space out the cap hit until 2056.