WillSaints81

Michael Thomas, a second rounder, and any of the 2nd round DTs(other than Clark and Johnson) should make immediate first year impacts. And our guard we get in fourth needs to be able to start this year.

hagan714

First thru fourth round picks must see the field and have an impact from day one. starter or not he must have an impact. If things go well 1 maybe 2 have starter written on them by the end of year one. The other 2 or 3 must be depth upgrades and rotational players pushing for playing time. busts in the first 4 rounds are killers

If the rest can give you an improvement of depth with promise or even that rare diamond in the rough even better. Showing solid skills worth developing.

st thomas

there's no luke klukey in the draft, so i'm out on a backer in first.

hagan714

Well it appears the eagles are moving up in the draft and swapping with miami. So that is a huge blow to obvious trade possibilities involving QBs

Byron Maxwell, Kiko Alonso to be traded to Dolphins - NFL.com

Then add philli move trading Murry to Tenn
Titans to acquire RB DeMarco Murray from Eagles - NFL.com

The eagles should be pick heavy. It will be interesting to see how these moves all shake out.

Danno

Upon further review, maybe we will.
While it's true we haven't traded down for more picks in a decade, this will be the first draft Jeff Ireland has had with a full year of evaluation and scouting. Since he's now the top draft guy on the staff, I think we can throw history out.

halloween 65

Yes!! Sometimes (sometimes) I would actually draft for need.

K Major

IF the Saints decide to trade down, this is the year to do it. The skill level at 12, isn't all that much different than at 20.

One of these teams is gonna fall in love with a QB.

hagan714

with Phili out of the mix and houston spending millions. who will trade up now to jump ahead of miami?

Miami looks to be in need of defense as are we so to trade down would mean we would be passing on at least two defensive players before pick 12 is made. Phili and Houston have changed this draft big time

Teams with mult picks
R2
Los Angeles gets Philadelphia pick (Bradford-Foles trade collateral)
New England gets Arizona pick (Jones-Cooper trade collateral)
R3
Kansaas City forfeits R3 pick (Jeremy Maclin tampering)
Philadelphia gets Detroit R3 pick (2015 draft trade - Gabe Wright)
R4
Baltimore gets Denver R4 pick (Gino Gradkowski trade)
Philadelphia and Tennessee swap 2nd round picks (DeMarco Murray trade collateral)
CHicago gets New England R4 pick (Martellus Bennett trade)
R5
Denver gets Baltimore R5 pick (Gino Gradkowski trade)
Oakland gets Dallas R5 pick (Brice Butler trade)
Detroit gets Denver R5 pick (2015 Draft Day trade collateral)
Houston gets New England R5 pick (Keyshawn Martin trade)
Philadelphia gets Pittsburgh R5 pick (Brandon Boykin trade)
San Francisco gets San Diego R5 pick (2015 Draft Day trade)
Kansas City gets Seattle R5 pick (Kelcie McCray trade)
Also: Atlanta forfeits 5th round pick for piping in crowd noise
Also: Los Angeles forfeits 5th round pick (Isaiah Battle 2015 Supplemental pick)

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

SmashMouth

Lots of jockeying still... Looking to trade down should be our default policy, provided we get value. We should never trade up.