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Without a second-round pick after making a move to land the eventual Offensive Rookie of the Year in Alvin Kamara, the New Orleans Saints had to wait until nearly the end of Day 2 of the 2018 NFL Draft before making their first and only selection of the night.



They chose UCF receiver Tre' Quan Smith in the third round with the 91st overall pick, and General Manager Mickey Loomis said the team was prepared to wait and see how the draft unfolded.

"We pretty much shot our gun," Loomis said with a laugh when referring to the Saints' Day 1 traded that helped land defensive end Marcus Davenport. "We have to retain some things for the future. We weren't coming in with the mindset that we were going to target someone and move up."

While waiting for their selection, the Saints' draft room still was heavily focused on the draft.

"We are interested in seeing how guys come off the board relative to how we've got them graded and we are interested in seeing, particularly, the teams in our division what they are doing," Loomis said.

Loomis said that as the draft unfolded, the Saints considered making a move.

"We talked about it a couple times but then the player we talked about, all of a sudden, went off," he said. "So I think we kind of like having the amount of picks we have later in this draft so it would have been difficult to give up any of those and certainly would be difficult to give up any future picks at this point."

The Saints hold five selections on Saturday's Day 3 of the draft, a fourth-, fifth-, two sixth- and a seventh-round pick.

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