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The Saints can have a troublesome choice to make once they’re on the clock with the No. 9 general choose.

With Derek Carr’s standing for the 2025 season up within the air, New Orleans may draft a quarterback. Nonetheless, league insiders imagine they are going to go a distinct route at that spot.

The Athletic’s Jeff Howe had quite a few conversations with normal managers, personnel executives, and coaches across the league to foretell the highest 10 of the draft. And when the Saints are on the clock, they imagine they are going to take Penn State tight finish Tyler Warren.

“That is one other powerful one to name. The Saints have been all around the quarterbacks within the class, getting notably concerned in Dart and Texas’ Quinn Ewers. Dart might be a first-rounder, however Ewers is extra probably a Day 2 choose,” Howe stated.

“However the place do they stand on Sanders? The Saints had a minimal presence at his professional day, for what it is value, but it surely would not be in the slightest degree surprising if he fell to them. Extra probably, based on a few executives, the Saints may commerce again into the primary spherical to get their quarterback.”

As Howe talked about, New Orleans may handle one other place with the ninth choose and nonetheless commerce again up from the second spherical to take a quarterback, one thing ESPN’s Adam Schefter lately said.

The Saints want extra playmakers in head coach Kellen Moore’s offense, and Warren would provide the unit with that from Day 1. Not solely would Warren be a mismatch within the passing recreation, however he may do the soiled work as a run blocker.