Buzz is heating up on a potential Saints trade up in the first round of the 2021 draft, but some fans have been calling for a trade down to address the team’s many obvious weaknesses — these days, everyone has an opinion.
New Orleans has made their stance perfectly clear: they prefer to narrow their draft board down to just a hundred or so names, and then proactively trade up the board to go get their coveted prospects. It’s a strategy the Saints have used year after year, trading up at some point in every draft Sean Payton has conducted since 2007 (not including the 2012 event, in which he was suspended).