foreverfan

Because you can get 20 8th round picks if you just wait a day or two.

TheOak

Don't we call that team the Falcons?

ChrisXVI

If the Texans don't go with a QB first overall and they want to jump back into the 1st round to make sure they get their guy... Then I'd be all for it. I guess that goes for most of the teams with the top 5 picks.

triman

There are reasons teams covet and hoard these picks. I read somewhere where 56 % of of 1st rd picks start in their 1st year. This number decreases to 50% in the second rd .and drops dramatically in following rds. This should temper the hope that a draft pick can come in and fill a need immediately. That his a kind of crapshoot.

hagan714

this should be a wild draft. i expect a lot of trading. cap wise getting more picks is smart. but the talent in the first round is really solid this year so i am on the fence and given the track history of our ability to draft in round 1 i am leaning towards trade. if the offer came in to move to the top of the second AND we get the chance to move a player that would relieve the cap i think the saints would be hard pressed not to pull the trigger.

I for one have always loved trades in the draft. more picks the better. add in as many UNDFA as you can and let camp begin,

"We may have lost the game, but you'll be hurting tomorrow." Doug Atkins

papz

Haven't we already been down this road last year... and the year before that? And maybe the year before that too?

Luck, crapshoot, calculated crapshoot, roll of the dice, tomato, tamatoe, mayonnaise, mustard, apples, bananas?

TheOak

Considering what Payton/Loomis have found and brought onto the team in regards to under the radar players, I do not see it as being a still that is effected by quantity.

They look for something and they go get it, they don't take 20 warm bodies out to the practice field and hope someone turns out they way they thought he would.

Quality over quantity and draft order is somewhat irrelevant.

When is the last time we "traded down"? Who was the gem found because of that action?

st thomas

every draft isn't like the meachum theory, came out fat and out of shape and would have been cut if he were a 3rd or 4th rounder. we went with best available and stuck with the plan. if its that no# 3 from LSU that the best up; well welcome aboard and good luck kid.

ScottF

Good link for those of us with bad memories or selective amnesia:

New Orleans Saints All-Time Draft History - Pro-Football-Reference.com

Euphoria

Just reviewing our past drafts:

Looks as if the one thing we haven't really done was trade back, out of one and grab extra picks. I think its time to break that mold. Get some extra second round and 3rd round picks who could be able bodies to upgrade some talent over all. We also have done pretty well with making later round picks becoming contributors. Those players are also cheaper than 1st round pics...