There's a spoil of defensive riches in the first several rounds of the 2016 NFL Draft. Let's have a look at some of their stats.
The Saints defense blew this past season. And the season before that. Pleasantly, we saw the emergence of several promising rookies, but Dennis Allen just won’t be able to get it done with the husk of Dannell Ellerbe. Nor has the perennially promising John Jenkins demonstrated much beyond being able to sort of just flail around in the middle of a pretty bad defensive line. Kevin Williams will be 36 when the season starts, and pass rusher Bobby Richardson ain’t.