WR Nick Toon

Dang Tiger_fan, you sound a lot like Oregon_Duck_Fan with all those comparative stats !!


(sorry GDF...)

 

Nope. And that was my point exactly.

Amazing how we went from a scouting department that thought so much of Jonathan Sullivan that we traded up to get him, to one where they leave no small school stone unturned.

 

No matter which qb it is, Brees or Daniels, Toon is use to having a short QB throw it to him. And as the numbers go with the comparison with Randal, if that's the difference between second and fourth round, its very slim and Toon is a bargain.

 

Herb, you still have that Jonathan Sullivan Saints jersey? Or did you give it to Goodwill?

 

Meachem has been our #3 WR for the last three years straight

who do you think replaces him in our Top 4 WRs? the candidates are:

--Courtney Roby (29 years old, 4 years with Saints)
--7th Round pick Adrian Arrington (26 years old, 4 years with Saints)
--undrafted Joe Morgan (24 years old, 1 year with Saints)
--undrafted Andy Tanner (23 years old, 1 year with Saints)
--4th Round pick Nick Toon (23 years old)

2011 Receiving Yards
1143 -- Colston (28 years old)
627 -- Moore (28 years old)
620 -- Meachem (27 years old) -- gone to the Chargers
503 -- Henderson (29 years old)
31 -- Arrington (26 years old)

2010 Receiving Yards
1023 -- Colston (27 years old)
763 -- Moore (27 years old)
638 -- Meachem (26 years old) -- gone to the Chargers
464 -- Henderson (28 years old)
79 -- Arrington (25 years old)

2009 Receiving Yards
1074 -- Colston (26 years old)
804 -- Henderson (27 years old)
722 -- Meachem (25 years old) -- gone to the Chargers
153 -- Moore (26 years old)
6 -- Roby (26 years old)

2008 Receiving Yards
928 -- Moore (25 years old)
760 -- Colston (25 years old)
793 -- Henderson (26 years old)
289 -- Meachem (24 years old) -- gone to the Chargers
162 -- Patten (34 years old)

also, Mike Triplett, The Times-Picayune, wrote an interesting piece on the Saints taking Nick Toon:

The New Orleans Saints didn't go into this year's draft feeling like they had to land a wide receiver to help fill the void left by departed veteran Robert Meachem. They still have plenty of depth, with veteran Adrian Arrington likely to slide into the No. 4 receiver job behind fellow veterans Marques Colston, Lance Moore and Devery Henderson.

However, at this stage of the draft, the Saints are thinking about long-term potential, and they felt like Wisconsin receiver Nick Toon had more of that than any other player on their draft board.

If he shines early, he could certainly compete for playing time as a rookie in an offense that loves to spread the ball around. And the Saints could use some youth in one of their most veteran position groups. Henderson is 30 years old, and Colston and Moore both turn 29 this summer.

Toon is a big receiver at 6-2, 215, and Saints coach Joe Vitt compared him to a Colston type. His scouting report reads that way, too, describing him as tough with good hands. He set a school record with 171 career catches.

Toon had some minor injuries in college but nothing that concerned the Saints' medical staff. And as an added bonus, he is the son of former New York Jets receiver Al Toon. So as Vitt said, he's got it "in his blood."

Vitt said new Saints receivers coach Henry Ellard was especially high on Toon. He said the scouting department was also high on him. "Everyone felt great about him," Vitt said.

http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/2012/04/quick_take_on_new_orleans_sain.html

 

time flies when we're having fun

i'm also surprised at how long it's been since our current starting WRs were drafted:

2004 -- 2nd Devery Henderson
2005 -- (Lance Moore signed as undrafted free agent)
2006 -- 7th Marques Colston
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012

since then, the only WRs we drafted were Meachem (1st R, 2007) and Arrington (7th R, 2008) and now Toon (4th R, 2012)

during the last three drafts before this last one (2009 to 2011), we drafted:

4 DB -- 2009: Jenkins (1st) and Vaughn (4th), 2010: Robinson (1st), 2011: Patrick (3rd)
3 LB -- 2009: Arnoux (4th), 2011: Wilson (3rd) and Bussey (7th)
3 DL -- 2010: Woods (4th), 2011: Jordan (1st) and Romeus (7th)
2 OL -- 2010: Brown (2nd) and Tennant (5th)
1 RB -- 2011: Ingram (1st)
1 QB -- 2010: Canfield (7th)
1 TE -- 2010: Graham (3rd)
1 ST -- 2009: P Morstead (5th)
0 WR


during the last five drafts before this last one (2007 to 2011), we drafted:

7 DB -- 2007: Young (3rd) and Jones (5th), 2008: Porter (2nd), 2009: Jenkins (1st) and Vaughn (4th), 2010: Robinson (1st), 2011: Patrick (3rd) -- added 1 more in 2012 Draft

5 DL -- 2008: Ellis (1st) and Pressley (5th), 2010: Woods (4th), 2011: Jordan (1st) and Romeus (7th) -- added 1 more in 2012 Draft

5 OL -- 2007: Alleman (3rd) and Bushrod (4th), 2008: Nicks (5th), 2010: Brown (2nd) and Tennant (5th) -- added 2 more in 2012 Draft

4 LB -- 2007: Mitchell (7th), 2009: Arnoux (4th), 2011: Wilson (3rd) and Bussey (7th)

2 ST -- 2008: K Taylor Mehlhaff (6th), 2009: P Thomas Morstead (5th)

2 RB -- 2007: Pittman (4th), 2011: Ingram (1st)

2 WR -- 2007: Meachem (1st), 2008: Arrington (7th) -- added 1 more in 2012 Draft

1 TE -- 2010: Graham (3rd)

1 QB -- 2010: Canfield (7th)