Im a Saints fan so I'm holding hope that they could trade a future 7th round pick for Rashad Jennings. Definitely didnt think Rickey Jean would fall this far but would be good value at the 6th round
I still like to go with the notion that the team knows more about the players than we do and Payton obviously feels that Jennings will be there for a FA pickup. Everybody seems so high on him and yet here we are in the 7th round and he's yet to be picked up. There must be something we don't know...
Has to be.... also I wanted Gartrell Johnson and pimped him on here alot(you can search) and he went in the 4th round and would've been perfect for the Saints. Also this may give Rashad Jennings a big Chip on his back and want to make people regret for passing on him.
Here's Payton's post draft comments from last night. He discusses the reasoning behind drafting the punter and his other considerations. (long read) Breaking News Peyton Post Draft Press Conference-Talks About Punter... - New Orleans Saints - Black and Gold - Community
overview of what Phila did in the draft..had one of the better drafts. Brett Favre, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, more NFL - Peter King - SI.com Before the draft,'' he said, "we met as an organization, and we knew the 12 draft picks we had all would not make our team. So we agreed -- [owner] Jeff Lurie, [president] Joe Banner, Andy and me -- that we'd try to push for a few picks in next year's draft. First, we called everybody in the round without a pick, then just called everybody period. And finally we got [Seattle GM] Tim Ruskell to agree to a deal because he wanted Deon Butler.'' At 137, the Eagles still had about 10 of their gaggle of 30 picks left. And a veteran player appealed to them. They saw the Patriots take, and keep, two corners from the 2008 draft, and now, in the second round of this draft, they saw Bill Belichick take UConn cornerback Darius Butler. "We knew the Patriots signed Shawn Springs too, so we said, 'Let's try to get Ellis Hobbs from them.' We talked, Andy and Bill, and Bill didn't want to do it. But a while later we called again, and maybe they thought there was a chance they were going to lose him anyway. I don't know. But a starting cornerback for two fives -- we just couldn't turn that down.'' But now they really wanted Ingram. And the picks ticked by. The Packers at 145, Ravens at 149 and Texans at 152 were candidates to pick a tight end. Would they steal Ingram -- and would the Eagles have gambled too much and traded down one too many times to keep Ingram in their sights? Green Bay took a fullback. Baltimore picked a tight end, Davon Drew of East Carolina. Houston picked a tight end, James Casey of Rice. Eleven picks later, without a guy on the board who surely would make their team, Philly flipped the pick to New Orleans for a seven and a 2010 fifth-rounder. And midway through the seventh, they dealt their choice to Indy for a 2010 sixth. "We talk about it all the time -- if you deal a seventh for next year's sixth, then stay aggressive, eventually that seventh could become a first,'' Heckert said. "Even if it doesn't, and that's obviously a best-case scenario, it opens up so many possibilities to keep moving.''
