SmashMouth

28. New Orleans Saints—Tyson Campbell, CB, Georgia

Every year, I like to put at least one “Who!!!” in my first round. So in my calls over the last few days, I’ve asked most of my football contacts who they’d put in the first round that no one has there. One GM practically blurted “That Georgia corner, Tyson Campbell. He’s big and fast and had lots of experience in a passing conference.” A high-school teammate of Patrick Surtain II in Florida, Campbell went on to play 33 games with 24 starts in three seasons at Georgia. At 6-1 with 4.36 speed, he’s got perfect NFL tools, but his game is raw and, per Dane Brugler of The Athletic, he was suspect in covering receivers out of their breaks and easy to get off-balance. Coaches with confidence will look at what he CAN do and figure they can teach him what he doesn’t do well. Dennis Allen, the Saints’ defensive coordinator, is one of those confident coaches. Plus, there’s a big need in New Orleans at the position. I like this semi-risky pick here for the Saints.

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K Major

Hopefully Peter King is wrong with this Saints "mock" pick @ 28.

AsylumGuido

He was also the Saints' pick in one of the Moving the Chains mock drafts.

K Major

Good.

That means we are going offensive lineman or RB at pick #28 .

K Major

Not that it carries any weight, but I heard Deuce M/Ross Jackson talking about corners in the upcoming draft. He mentioned Tyson a couple of times & his fear on the Saints selecting a kid with not a lot of college tape that high in the draft. Waddle and Smith (Bama products) kind of exposed him. His balls skills are kind of "meh" for me & not a whole lot of experience in zone.

Some scouts claim he's a second round selection.

We shall see.

ChrisXVI

If you’re going for a slight reach on a CB why wouldn’t you go with Eric Stokes?

Boston Saint

I would have hoped they’d learn their lesson about reaching for a DB with Jean Baptiste

turbo_dog

I don't hate this pick. He might be a reach in the first round, but probably not by much. I like how he plays the ball in the few highlight packages I watched. He didn't look like he was out of position on medium to long routes and he was able to break from his man to undercut a pass in the middle of the field by watching the QB. Plus he's not afraid to tackle. And he's got some height at 6'2".

Rugby Saint II

Who? Yeah, and of course he gives us his WTF pick. No respect I tell ya'.....