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Draft Selections
Princely Umanmielen Head Shot
PICK: 9 RND: 1 (NO)
Princely Umanmielen
DE-EDGE Ole Miss
Omarion Hampton Head Shot
PICK: 40 RND: 2 (NO)
Omarion Hampton
RB North Carolina
Carson Schwesinger Head Shot
PICK: 71 RND: 3 (NO)
Carson Schwesinger
LB UCLA
Fadil Diggs Head Shot
PICK: 93 RND: 3 (NO)
Fadil Diggs
DL-EDGE Syracuse
Oluwafemi Oladejo Head Shot
PICK: 112 RND: 4 (NO)
Oluwafemi Oladejo
LB-EDGE UCLA
Billy Bowman Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 131 RND: 4 (NO)
Billy Bowman Jr.
S Oklahoma
Kurtis Rourke Head Shot
PICK: 184 RND: 6 (NO)
Kurtis Rourke
QB Indiana
Ja'Quinden Jackson Head Shot
PICK: 248 RND: 7 (NO)
Ja'Quinden Jackson
RB Arkansas
Draft Grade — Saints
Overall C+
ValueD+ NeedB+ TradesB- FutureB-
A mixed bag for the Saints, and a C+ to match.

The Saints treated their own grade as gospel and everyone else's as noise, spending Round 3, Pick 29 on Fadil Diggs a full 137 spots early.

That Rourke pick is the receipt they will wave around later. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped cornerback, which is a strange place to end up. They went 3 of 8 on their needs, which is most of what a draft is for.

The trenches got the money picks, top to bottom.

Call it incomplete, and check back in a couple of seasons.

Pick Analysis
Pick9 Rnd1 Princely Umanmielen
In the 9th overall pick they get a disruptor off the edge, though the board says they badly overpaid. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Pick40 Rnd2 Omarion Hampton
Value with a capital V on Omarion Hampton in the 40th pick, a genuine coup. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Pick71 Rnd3 Carson Schwesinger
They went early on Carson Schwesinger in Round 3, Pick 7, and the value did not follow. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Pick93 Rnd3 Fadil Diggs
They talked themselves into Fadil Diggs at No. 93, and the board did not agree. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Pick112 Rnd4 Oluwafemi Oladejo
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Oluwafemi Oladejo well ahead of where he belonged. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Pick131 Rnd4 Billy Bowman Jr.
Billy Bowman Jr. slipping to pick 131 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. It adds depth where they could use a little.
Pick184 Rnd6 Kurtis Rourke
Kurtis Rourke in pick 184 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. A need, and now a little less of one.
Pick248 Rnd7 Ja'Quinden Jackson
Ja'Quinden Jackson in Round 7, Pick 32 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.