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Saints' heavy investments at offensive tackle have paid off

Funny thing about ranking offseason needs – they tend to change as the year goes on.

There’s no better example than the New Orleans Saints decision to draft offensive tackle Ryan Ramczyk with the No. 32 pick in last year’s draft, even though they already had two established starters in Terron Armstead and Zach Strief, plus a great “Plan B” option in left guard Andrus Peat.

Sure enough, Armstead and Strief wound up missing a total of 22 games because of injuries in 2017, including the playoffs.