The 2020 NFL Draft is almost here, and the New Orleans Saints will be on the clock before we know it. So it’s time to run through a final seven-round mock draft, doing our best to navigate the hundreds of selections and make trades when possible to end up with the best set of prospects.
We’ve been publishing a new entry in this series once a week, every week for the last month. You can compare different scenarios to each other in the links we’ve embedded below:
So let’s get to it. Here’s our final stab at seven rounds of Saints picks before the draft kicks off on April 23.
Round 1
There was a surplus of highly-graded options on our board, so we tried to trade down and recoup more picks. We had 10 available prospects graded as potential first-round values at this point, so we attempted to move down 10 spots, from No. 24 to No. 34. The Indianapolis Colts weren’t interested, however, so we ended up settling for a move down to No. 33 (owned by the Cincinnati Bengals). That trade swapped our pick at No. 24 for Nos. 33 and 107 in this year’s draft, and Cincinnati’s third-round pick in 2021.