GumboDawg

My overriding thought is that we Saints fans don't know what it's like to go into a draft not needing 4 immediate starters. Outside of Meacham, a BPA pick I like, we appear to have taken on a lot of high-character project types that can be brought along slowly and groomed into starters. Like all drafts, some will fail.

Carve Meacham out for a minute -- for this draft to be considered a success, he has to do well. As for the rest, if three years from now we've gotten two additional solid starters and some usable depth out of a rather tepid draft pool, I think we've done well. Once you get beyond the first round, you're hard-pressed in almost any draft to find rookies that would in year one unseat McKenzie/David, or our LB corps, or our DTs. If we did, that's a great problem to have. But I'm holding out judgment on this draft until a few years from now. It's nice to actually be in a place to do that.