Re: Saints draft Houston DE Payton Turner with first-round pick
 

That moment when the wife sends you to the store for dog food and a gallon of milk and you come home with scratch tickets. Basically we're taking a < 1% chance this guy is Von Miller.

Expect more contrarian picks for the rest of the draft. It's just what we do. Occasionally it pays off with a Kamara story.

Re: Saints draft Houston DE Payton Turner with first-round pick
 

In all honesty, I'm not that impressed with this pick.

Re: Saints draft Houston DE Payton Turner with first-round pick
 

Can't wait for Payton to package the 2nd and comp 3rd to move up for a tackle tonight

Re: Saints draft Houston DE Payton Turner with first-round pick
 

Good/great pass rushers get a premium on the open FA market, so potentially drafting one in the 1st round gives the team an added year to the player's rookie contract.

I'm not saying that in itself makes the pick a good one, but something to consider...

Re: Saints draft Houston DE Payton Turner with first-round pick
 

I'm loving this pick! You can't have enough players in the trenches.

Re: Saints draft Houston DE Payton Turner with first-round pick
 

I’m still baffled but he’s a Saint now so I’m rooting hard for the kid.

Re: Saints draft Houston DE Payton Turner with first-round pick
 

It just goes to show that they have far more information than any of us fans. It sounds like he was moving up draft boards all across the league and most of y'all never knew he even existed. I certainly didn't and really didn't know of half the players taken thus far.

Trust in Jeff Ireland.

Re: Saints draft Houston DE Payton Turner with first-round pick
 

I tried hard to stay awake and wait for the pick only to fall asleep and wake up confused. I did think it was a good possibility we'd do something "different" and take a Bateman or Toney. Obviously Toney went well before that and Bateman went a few picks before. Go figure it was someone we all knew almost nothing about.

Well, welcome to the team young man. I find his wing span and athleticism very intriguing. I hope we found ourselves a pass rushing gem.

Re: Saints draft Houston DE Payton Turner with first-round pick
 

Every year I think I finally have it all figured out and every year I’m reminded that I know nothing lol.

Re: Saints draft Houston DE Payton Turner with first-round pick
 

ESPN analyst Adam Schefter reports that some NFL executives believe Houston DL Payton Turner could go in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft.

Turner weighed in at 6-foot-6, 268 pounds with absurdly long 35 3/8" arms and did not run the 40-yard dash at his pro day workout. His 3-cone drill of 6.70 seconds ranked in the 99th percentile of historical NFL defensive ends. The Cougars' standout DE ran a 4.25 short shuttle (84th percentile), banged out 23 bench reps and posted a 36" vertical jump (76th), all exceptional marks. Turner earned a superb 90.0 pass rush grade in 2020 according to PFF, and it's easy to see why he was able to dominate so thoroughly in the AAC after seeing these stellar testing marks, posting 10.5 TFL and five sacks in just five games this year. Schefter cites Turner's character, Medicals and length as being some of the traits that have caught the eye of NFL decision makers. He is shaping up to be a second-round mock that could get pushed into the first if things break right.

SOURCE: Adam Schefter on Twitter
Apr 29, 2021, 4:47 PM ET


That was time stamped right before the draft. I guess it wasn't completely out of nowhere.