The Saints need to do a way better job on the draft this year, another one lake last year would kill them. They had one of the lower ratings last year. The NY Giants had the best, like one said, they could have stopped after OBJ and still would have gotten a great grade. To add, many of the former Tigers did well for their teams. USA Today Sports rates every player from last years draft. VAE are used, a positive rating means that a player exceeded expectations, a negative rating means a player failed to meet expectations. A 0.0 means they did what was need in the position picked... Former LSU Players: Trai Turner +3.0 Ego Ferguson -1.7 Jeremy Hill +7.3 James Wright +0.2 Lamin Barrow -0.3 Alfred Blue +2.9 Jarvis Landry +4.5 OBJ +6.4 Mett +1.9 Along the same lines, the Saints draft: Cooks +8.8 Jean-Baptist -0.8 Fortt -1.6 Sunseri -0.9 Powell -1.5 Rooks +1.5 Notes: Rooks is no longer with the Saints, signed with Zona. Fortt is now with the Jags.
I did get a reply, here it is: Cooks’ VAE rating should have been listed as 1.0. That was a misprint in the NFL draft glossy magazine but listed correctly in our NFL draft special edition (tabloid version done in newsprint). Thanks for reading our publications. Best, Steve Borelli Sr. Editor USA TODAY Sports Weekly
With LWilliams still available at #5 pick, I thought the Saints were going to trade up and get him. Then, when it got to #13, I thought they would go for BDupree. APeat is not a sexy choice, but hard to argue w/an big 'ol O-lineman in first round, esp. one smart enough to be at Stanford. Any chance they still try to get BDupree since he is still available?
@ParadiseiNC I doubt Dupree will be available at 31, but he'd be a steal if he is. Taking Peat makes me think they intended to pick Collins, who would have been a much better plug-in-and-play selection. But Detillier thinks he can play right away.
Yeah, for sure. I was thinking about whether they would try to trade up and get him since he is still on the board. They could use him!
