2010 NFL Draft: New Orleans Saints Select Jimmy Graham, TE, Miami

But I guess that’s the case for any pick by the time you reach the end of the 3rd round.

Had that up really quick. All round great work on the draft.

Wish we’d gone with Norwood, but, like all our other picks, we’ll just have to wait and see.

mmmkay…

I don’t think I can even make the case that he was the 2nd best TE available at this pick. Really disappointing day for those of us praying for defense. But on the bright side, Dekota Watson is still out there!

6’8 250, runs a 4.5… im interested in seeing this guy… We dont NEED a LB. Williams has already come out and said that.

And he could end up being a bust . . . but I’m okay with it. He does have physical potential, and a lot of guys have successfully made the transition from basketball player to tight end. The end of the 3rd round isn’t a bad place to take a calculated risk.

Before we get too caught up in the “basketball player = amazing athleticism” conclusion, do realize that Zach Hilton once played for the Tar Heels.

I will not be watching anymore of the draft. Can’t take it anymore.
It reminds me of Payton calling that stupid end around play that never works—three times in a row.
I can’t believe I’ve spent this much time being so utterly disappointed this weekend.
Y’all have fun finding the silver lining in this one.

I’ll give them a C- so far. There’s no position they’ve selected that I didn’t outright NOT expect them to take and they’ve gotten pretty good value on two of the three. They just haven’t fulfilled any of the four positions I would consider their most pressing, in terms of need. They also only have three picks remaining, so they likely won’t get around to all of them. OLB, DT, RB and C remain. There’s still an outside chance they draft a QB, stretching them even thinner. Jammal Brown could still represent a pick or a player. If the former, I’m starting to doubt it will be this year. There’s a reason why most teams at 32 wind up trading down and I’m starting to understand why. When talent becomes THIS watered down, you need as many picks (read: lottery tickets) as possible, if you want a decent shot at striking gold. As it stands now, we’ll be lucky to walk away from this whole thing with a few bronze shavings.

They are gonna turn him into a QB Rushing, Pass hawking, acceptable run stuffing OLB. Slim chance in hell, but if so, you heard it here first. lol (yea the rum has kicked in)

that we should draft this guy..

You guys forgot that Strief Also Plays Center. Infact he can play across the line if needed. Something tells me we are trading Jamal Brown for an LB or a DT.

Crazy thing is, If this Tightend has a good set of hands. and can Jump high in the End zone in the back. I dont care what you say. an 5’11" CB will not be able to Block a pass on a guy who has a high vertical in the corner of an End zone.

Let me run a route and see if he can catch. If he can do that. Then hes the next Jason Whitten.

We can’t trade Jamal Brown until he signs a tender—and he hasn’t signed. So, no trade.

1. Sign LB Adalius Thomas when the Pats cut him.

2. Some sort of negotiation to get DT Albert Haynesworth.

JeremyShockey

Excited we drafted former canes te jimmy graham!!! hes gonna be great one day

and make him a WR…or maybe we got him for the hornets…

You go with BPA nowadays when there’s no holes to fill. Graham is too risky, especially when there are still rush linebackers out there. These 3 picks have been edgy and dumb in my opinion. Brown and Graham have upside, but are huge bust risks. TWO chances missed where we could’ve taken EXTREMELY HELPFUL and NECESSARY pass rushers. Edgy, but dumb. Casillas is not starting quality and there are too many questions with DE. Ridiculous. Sure we won a Superbowl, but we’re not better after this draft by much at all.

Antonio Gates didn’t play one down of college football. Jimmy Graham at least has some experience playing football on the college level. Tack on his basketball skill set, and those skills tend to translate very well to the TE position. I’m telling you, I like the pick

What’s really sad is that tonight made the P-Rob pick look wise and brilliant. So what if he’s a huge boom-or-bust guy? (For that matter, Graham probably is that too.) He’s at least a position of some degree of need. Gay and Torrence are rather poor. They aren’t as bad as some of the crap we’ve had in the past, but they aren’t up to the standards teams that want to repeat as SB champs need. And given J-Shock’s injury history, Graham is also a position of at least mild degree of need as well.

But Brown? That’s just flat insane. BPA may be the mantra but anybody with the slightest bit of sense realizes that you have to pick somebody who actually is remotely useful to the team. And right now, we just simply don’t need five tackles on the team badly enough to draft one at all much less in the second bloody round! So unless we picked him to pluck him when we figured somebody else was about to draft him, in the hopes they’d later trade for the other Brown after all, we’ve just cast away whatever minuscule bit of leverage in trade discussions we might have had. Our only realistically likely hope now is that Brown leaves as a UFA after next season and then in 2012 we get a compensatory pick for him. Oh frabjous day!

So what do we have? We have two boom-or-bust prospects that I think our coaching staff is good enough they can probably handle them just fine. (But only probably.) And we have a flat idiotic and moronic pick, no matter how good Brown turns out to be (if he does at all). All three may turn out to be decent picks. But every team always has needs. And we do have at least one need that we haven’t filled yet, and that is long-term stability at the DT position. Hargrove may turn out to be that, but he isn’t it right now, and he isn’t signed beyond this year. Which means I really hate that we didn’t get one yet.

Then you look at other teams that are filling gaping holes on their team and you have to ask what the HELL is going on.

It’s a sad, sad day when people that everybody knows are complete morons — like Al Davis and Mike Brown, among others — are able to have better drafts than we are.

His college stats:
17 catches, 213 yards, 5 TD’s
That’s 1 touchdown every 3.4 catches!

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