2013 NFL Draft - Saints Big Board

[Danno]

Originally Posted by papz

I'm no where nearly as educated as you guys are with these mid round guys to even gauge where they're likely to be going. However, I'll be consistent throughout this draft process and say I would like to have one of the top 3 DE/OLB hybrids in the draft. That said, I don't feel we'll likely have a chance at any of them as I feel they'll all be gone by then(Mingo/Jordan/Ansah).

With our first pick, I'd have no issues if we took Damontre Moore, Jarvis Jones, or Kenny Vacarro. Tank Carradine is also an intriguing name that been rising big time in the past few weeks. As far as mid round prospects, I've mentioned J.J. Wilcox, Da'Rick Rodgers, Chris Faulk as guys I would like to look at. Sean Renfree or Ryan Griffin are two late round guys I wouldn't mind us drafting and developing. There's got to be a familiarity with Griffin being a local product and playing for Curtis Johnson(last year we took Tiller who played for Marrone late). Cutcliffe has a strong history with quarterbacks and that make Renfree interesting for me. Call it homerism or just due to the fact they're solid mid round prospects, but the LSU crop of prospects carry some solid upside.

I honestly don't have a deep list or anything... I found over the years that while being fun to do, nailing the picks are as likely has hitting the powerball. Expect while paying a couple bucks for a quick pick ticket, trying to get a good feel for the draft takes up a ton of time. Plus I stopped gambling for a few years already so my knowledge and care for college football(on a broad level) has dwindled more and more as time goes by.

I much rather just read the draft analysis and scouting reports after we take them these days.

Same here. Its odd, almost all the players have similar strengths and weaknesses. Its like reading a horoscope or a fortune cookie. You can just about pull the so called experts analysis' out of a hat for most of these prospects. They all have very minor differences.

I'd still love to see how Loomis organizes his board, what system does he use, how much influence Payton and Ryan have, are the scouts in the war room too, etc...

I'd also like to know how close the media scouts are in their anaysis to the real NFL scouts.