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USAT: Saints Wire

Mar 13, 2022

Here’s a good way to start your Sunday. The first collaborative seven-round New Orleans Saints mock draft from the Saints Wire war room is live, featuring an all-in investment on offense through the first three rounds of picks. I was joined by our staff writers Maddy Hudak, Ross Jackson, and our latest addition Dylan Sanders — that’s everyone on staff but Kade Kistner, whose day job kept him sidelined, but we’ll be sure to get his input in future roundtables. - We kept a few hard rules for this exercise. Trading picks was outlawed, because even if it is fun it’s hardly educational. And we stuck to a firm ten-minute timer for each selection (which is even less time than teams get in reality once they’re on the clock). Our assumptions for free agency were kept minimal, to help give a better idea of where team needs stand right now. We’re planning to run a follow-up mock draft after free agency to compare results and see how things changed. - That’s enough table-setting. Let’s get into it:

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