About a month ago, Who Dat Dish put out a piece discussing the then pick du jour for the Saints according to the media devoted to covering the team. The hot pick back then was Boise State linebacker Leighton Vander Esch. Two days before the draft, the Twitterverse of these sportswriters and bloggers is all abuzz about a cornerback for the Saints in the first round.
It’s hard to pinpoint where these buzz picks start, but they catch on like wildfire. In the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of verbiage devoted to Iowa cornerback Josh Jackson and, as outliers, UCF’s Mike Hughes and Louisville’s Jaire Alexander.