LaTech OT Jordan Mills visiting Saints.
 

Jordan Mills Profile

Louisiana Tech offensive tackle Jordan Mills is going to visit the New Orleans Saints, according to league sources with knowledge of the situation.

Mills is a first-team All-Western Athletic Conference selection who's regarded as a rising draft prospect.

He's the cousin of Green Bay Packers cornerback Tramon Williams.

Some draft analysts project him from the second round to third round.

The 6-foot-5, 316-pounder ran the 40-yard dash in 5.23 seconds at the NFL scouting combine.

He bench pressed 225 pounds 20 times, registering a 28 1/2 inch vertical leap, a 28 1/2 inch vertical leap, an 8-5 broad jump, a 4.88 20-yard shuttle and an 8.10 three-cone drill.

Mills has drawn comparisons to Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher.

Scout.com: Jordan Mills Profile

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He's ranked as the 12th best tackle by WalterFootball:

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Ranked 9th among OTs (by NFLDraftScout.com) and projected to be picked in the 2nd or 3rd round.

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Solid tackle. Helped keep Colby Cameron upright in that high-powered offense Louisiana Tech had last year. It's a crying shame that Tech's athletic director screwed the pooch by waiting on a bowl game that never came around. There were some good prospects on that team that didn't get to showcase their talents one more time in front of a national audience and scouts. Pro Days don't tell the entire story of a player.

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Yeup Colby Cameron is probably next on their list Quinton Patton is a baller too!

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Louisiana Tech tackles never work out in the NFL. :p

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Came from a High powered passing offense OT. I like it.

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Definitely high-powered in passing, but they were actually very balanced with the run and the pass in that spread offense under Sonny Dykes last year. Their run-game amassed over 2700 yards and 47 scores with a 5.2 YPC clip. Kenneth Dixon had nearly 1200 yards of that and 27 scores...as a freshman. Mills could work out at being a good run-blocker, as well.

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I seem to recall another tackle the Saints took from La.Tech. He worked out pretty well.

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Mickey Loomis doing his home work.

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A Willie Roaf clone?

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Depends on how good his eyesight is!!

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Maybe he'll be the first. Who knows.

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So much for a sleeper draft pick. Hope hes still around in the third round.

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Willie was the strongest man in the NFL at one point.

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i am trying to move him from ROT to LOT in my mind.

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He seems level-headed and brings a good work ethic to the table. He would be a good third-rounder for us. Or maybe we could trade down and pick him up in the second, if his value is actually rising.

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I'd still opt for Barrett Jones and Chris Faulk, even though Faulk wouldn't probably be much help in this coming season coming off of his injury, but if he was healthy - he'd be a 1st rounder and out of Saints' reach.

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Jones I could see, but why would we want someone who may not be of some help to us this year in Faulk? Right tackle was a turnstile last year with injuries. The Saints are going to need all the healthy bodies they can get.

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Because Faulk would probably be a high 1st rounder if he hadn't injured himself, which has caused his draft value to fall and has made it possible to get a high 1st round talent LT with as low as a 5th round picks.

To me there's huge potential value in that type of a pick, but naturally Faulk has to pass the medicals in terms of that his recuperation from the injury is advancing as it should be (reports I've read say that he is indeed doing that).

Like I've said in another thread already, I think these picks would be all about the future and not necessarily the here and now. Faulk probably would be a red shirt rookie in his first year, while Jones could already take snaps this coming season at virtually any of the O-line positions, but the end goal with him would be that he'd replace De La Puente as the starting center in 2014 and perhaps replacing either Grubbs or Evans as one of the starting guards at a later date. Faulk would be the starting LT in 2014, while Marcel Jones would be the starting RT after being developed another year behind Strief, and potentially stepping in if Strief gets injured again. So, in this scenario, the Saints would either roll the dice with Charles Brown as the LT or get a vet 1-year hire to man that LT position until Faulk can get to the line-up.

I think this scenario would be very cost efficient, since they could get a 1st round LT talent at a 5th round price in both a draft pick and a rookie contract, so they could save some money to re-sign players like Graham.

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I can say this our scouts do a good job on finding talent on the o-line so I'm sure we will find a good tackle.