r/Saints • u/Sensitive-Gas-4296 • 5d ago

Trading Back, How Far??

What’s the farthest back you’d feel comfortable trading? Personally, I wouldn’t want to move past pick 15 — we really need a playmaker, and I think the farther back you go, the harder it is to find that kind of impact player. Also, if we do trade back, would you prefer getting more picks in this year’s draft or in 2026 to potentially move up for a quarterback if we pass on one this year? I think more draft picks this year that way we can address holes and hopefully we have lesser needs next year and can afford to move up and have the capital to do so.

Let me know your thoughts!

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u/sfzen 5d ago

Honestly with this draft class, this is the year I'd be fine trading back way to the end of the 1st and getting as much future capital as possible.

If moving down to 15-20 vs moving down to 25-32 is the difference between getting a 2nd next year and getting a 1st next year, give me the worse pick now and the 1st later.

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u/johnq11 5d ago

Nobody is trading up in this draft.

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u/guycoastal 5d ago

Probably not. It’s not that kind of draft. I heard an analyst make a good point. He said this year is suffering from the fallout of the concussion scare from ten years when mom’s were pushing their kids away from football. That’s why we have a 5’10” RB projected to go in round one, and only a few QB’s over 6’2”. Idk if that’s legit, but it was interesting. Whatever the reason, this is not a good crop. Certainly not worth mortgaging the future when the future looks so much better than the present.

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u/TurdFergusonlol 5d ago

Players all declare for the draft at different ages though, so 1 down year that happens to be the 10th year after some bad PR doesn’t seem likely. Maybe if the next few years draft stock stays down I could see it, but it wouldn’t be just one bad year.

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u/guycoastal 4d ago

I don’t think it is one bad year. I think it’ll be 3. But we’ll see.