The New Orleans Saints’ 2025 NFL Draft felt extra about elevating the crew’s flooring, not the ceiling. This is step one of a rebuild, and the Saints achieved that this 12 months. As a consequence of this, draft grades could also be a bit in every single place this 12 months, particularly when New Orleans went with a controversial choice, QB Tyler Shough. Nonetheless, it’s all the time enjoyable to see some grades the Saints bought and use them sooner or later as a reference for the draft class, and right now, it’s time to take a look at PFSN’s 2025 Saints draft grades.

Spherical 1 (#9) Kelvin Banks Jr: B-

Spherical 2 (#40) Tyler Shough: B

Spherical 3 (#71) Vernon Broughton: D

Spherical 3 (#93) Jonas Sanker: B-

Spherical 4 (#112) Danny Stutsman: B-

Spherical 4 (#131) Quincy Riley: A

Spherical 6 (#184) Devin Neal: A

Spherical 7 (#248) Moliki Matavao: B+

Spherical 7 (#254) Fadil Diggs: A

Total Draft Grade: C

The imaginative and prescient is sound, however the execution is open to questioning. Kelvin Banks Jr. was their first choose (ninth general), and whereas he involves city with all the bodily traits you would ask for, his lack of consideration to element on the place is a priority.

That’s to not say that he shall be a bust, however in drafting a centerpiece lineman forward of securing a long-term answer to the QB place, you want him to be an enormous hit and it’s honest to query if we’ll see that.

Talking of the quarterback, Tyler Shough was a a lot talked about second spherical choice. The pleasure of Louisville has the kind of bodily traits that scream ‘long run starter’, however the issue is that “long-term” for him isn’t what it’s for many first 12 months QBs (26 years outdated).

If the crew commits to him this season, taking a cautious method with Derek Carr, then this grade would transfer nearer to a ‘B’, however with out readability to his 2025 position, an older prospect comes with loads of roster constructing danger.