Is Jeff Ireland really a great college scouting director? That’s the question poised by a recent episode of the Saints Twitter Podcast (listeners be advised; language can be coarse), where the New Orleans Saints draft pick history under his command was brought under scrutiny.
And when you take a step back to look draft hauls from a bird’s eye view, the Saints do stand apart. In a stridently negative post recapping every team’s biggest recent mistake, Pro Football Focus draft analyst Mike Renner had only positives to say about the last five Saints draft classes, praising their hit rate on 28 picks in that span.