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Problem is you get hyped and after this weekend remember its 16 weeks till preseason

nola_swammi

Players i am looking out for is;

Taco Charlton
Charles Harris

Obi Melifonwu

Curtis Samuel

Fabian Moreau

O J Howard

K Major

Can we let Lattimore get in some real time practice/contact before the sky starts to fall?? I think it's comical that we got the best corner back in the draft yet many are already complaining.

R E L A X.

jeanpierre

Marlon Humphrey is off the board...so much for that pipe dream at 32...

lee909

Saints fill major need with top-rated cornerback Marshon Lattimore

Marshon Lattimore, Roger Goodell
Ohio State's Marshon Lattimore, left, reacts with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell after being selected by the New Orleans Saints during the first round of the 2017 NFL football draft, Thursday, April 27, 2017, in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke, The Associated Press)
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on April 27, 2017 at 8:56 PM, updated April 27, 2017 at 9:00 PM
Offensive players unexpectedly flew off the board in the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday night. The New Orleans Saints' brass likely threw a party with every name announced.

This left the Saints with too many defensive players from which to choose at No. 11 overall. Craziness.

And the Saints made the smart pick by taking Ohio State cornerback Marshon Lattimore, the consensus top cornerback in this year's draft class.


Drafting Lattimore helps fill a major position of need. This should also end any thought of trading for Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler.

Well done, Saints. Well done.

I understand the injury concerns involving Lattimore. The 6-foot, 193-pound cornerback missed much of his college career with hamstring injuries. That's a scary proposition for any NFL player, much less a cornerback. This also means he was only a full-time starter last year for the Buckeyes.

But this should tell you how good Lattimore was last season to be rated the consensus top cornerback in this draft. He picked off four passes with Ohio State his redshirt sophomore season and broke up nine passes.

In NFL.com's draft evaluation, an AFC pro personnel director described Lattimore this way: "I've studied the top cornerbacks coming out and he's the best I've seen. He's so athletic that he can just post up under the receiver's chin and shadow him all over the field. And he's tough, too. He'll be one of the top cornerbacks pretty quickly."

Given how unbelievably awful the Saints' pass defense has been the past few years, having a chance to select the best cornerback in the draft is a no-brainer.

It still wouldn't stun me in the least if the Saints drafted another cornerback or even traded for a veteran (probably not Butler). Sean Payton said leading up to this draft the Saints needed multiple corners. A healthy Delvin Breaux and P.J. Williams plus Lattimore and another cornerback? The Saints would be in good shape in the secondary.

The Saints' brass had to be doing backflips as Lattimore fell to them. Deservedly so.

"Two receivers to the left, Garcon to the right. Manning in the shotgun, puts Collie in motion. Looks in his direction...it's picked off! It's picked off! It's Tracy Porter again! He's runnin' free! He's gonna go all the way!

CharityMike

Gee..im sorry..didnt realize you couldnt have an opinion other than the masses around here.

AsylumGuido

No kidding. LOL

lee909

So Big Ben going be throwing long to Brown and bryant against the Ravens then.

AVG 19 yards per reception Humphreys

spkb25

holy **** he has makeup speed like deion

lee909

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