There’s a worryingly strong chance that the New Orleans Saints won’t have a first round pick in the 2023 NFL draft, which is uncomfortably familiar territory for Saints general manager Mickey Loomis. The team has aggressively navigated the draft year in and year out, but it might have cost them badly this time. We’ll just have to wait and see whether New Orleans can trade Sean Payton to another team this offseason and recoup a first rounder.
What about the joke you’ll hear from a lot of Saints fans that this team doesn’t draft well in the first round, anyway? It’s a common refrain, but is there much truth to it? To find out, we’ve ranked the last ten players New Orleans has drafted with first-round picks: