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Saints' 2017 draft class the NFL's best since 2000: website

The New Orleans Saints have gotten the most out of their 2017 rookie draft class.

Rookie running back Alvin Kamara and cornerback Marshon Lattimore are frontrunners for offensive and defensive rookie of the year awards.

But the seven-player draft class runs much deeper than that.

Analytics website FiveThirtyEight.com rated the Saints' 2017 NFL Draft class as the NFL's best since 2000, based on a per-player impact during his rookie season.

When using Pro-Football-Reference.com's Approximate Value metric -- that gives each player a single-number value regardless of position -- the Saints' rookie class has a 6.