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Draft Selections
Laiatu Latu Head Shot
PICK: 14 RND: 1 (NO)
Laiatu Latu
DL-EDGE UCLA
Kingsley Suamataia Head Shot
PICK: 45 RND: 2 (NO)
Kingsley Suamataia
OT BYU
Kitan Oladapo Head Shot
PICK: 150 RND: 5 (NO)
Kitan Oladapo
S Oregon State
Tanor Bortolini Head Shot
PICK: 168 RND: 5 (NO)
Tanor Bortolini
C Wisconsin
Jacob Cowing Head Shot
PICK: 170 RND: 5 (NO)
Jacob Cowing
WR Arizona
Ty'Ron Hopper Head Shot
PICK: 175 RND: 5 (NO)
Ty'Ron Hopper
LB Missouri
Kamal Hadden Head Shot
PICK: 190 RND: 6 (NO)
Kamal Hadden
CB Tennessee
Gabe Hall Head Shot
PICK: 199 RND: 6 (NO)
Gabe Hall
DL Baylor
Jaden Shirden Head Shot
PICK: 239 RND: 7 (NO)
Jaden Shirden
RB Monmouth
Draft Grade — Saints
Overall B-
ValueB- NeedA- TradesB- FutureB-
No fireworks, just a tidy B- for the Saints.

The Saints treated their own grade as gospel and everyone else's as noise, spending the 239th pick on Jaden Shirden a full 43 spots early. Call it a sensible B-, earned the boring way.

The Cowing pick alone nudges the whole weekend up a notch. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped quarterback, which is a strange place to end up.

Good work on the whole, with quarterback the one box left unchecked.

Pick Analysis
Pick14 Rnd1 Laiatu Latu
A reasonable price with a little left over, Laiatu Latu in No. 14. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Pick45 Rnd2 Kingsley Suamataia
A reach for Kingsley Suamataia in pick No. 45; a little patience would have been rewarded. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Pick150 Rnd5 Kitan Oladapo
A straight-up fair deal on Kitan Oladapo at the Round 5 slot, value and slot in agreement. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
Pick168 Rnd5 Tanor Bortolini
Tanor Bortolini at pick 168 is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Pick170 Rnd5 Jacob Cowing
Somehow Jacob Cowing was still sitting there in the 170th overall pick, and they pounced on premier wide receiver value. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Pick175 Rnd5 Ty'Ron Hopper
Ty'Ron Hopper at slot 175 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
Pick190 Rnd6 Kamal Hadden
They will replay Kamal Hadden at pick No. 190 for years; that is how good the value is. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Pick199 Rnd6 Gabe Hall
They talked themselves into Gabe Hall at No. 199, and the board did not agree. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
Pick239 Rnd7 Jaden Shirden
The board screamed and they did not listen, reaching into the next round for Jaden Shirden. The roster fit checks out.