CAN’T MISS: New Orleans Saints’ Draft: Jordyn Tyson, Arvell Reese Could Be The Franchise GAMECHANGER

CAN’T MISS: New Orleans Saints’ Draft: Jordyn Tyson, Arvell Reese Could Be The Franchise GAMECHANGER

Arizona State wide receiver Jordan Tyson is one of the New Orleans Saints can’tmiss prospects in the 2026 NFL draft. You are Locked On Saints, your daily New Orleans Saints podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. What is good Huda Nation and Huda family? I am your host, your friend Ross Jackson, New Orleans native, your New Orleans Saints expert and credentialed member of the media covering those New Orleans Saints as the Saints beat writer over at louisianaapasports.net. And on today’s episode of Locked on Saints, the Saints could absolutely hit a home run in the draft by going defense first. We’ll take a look at how they could add a potential takeaway machine in day two. And we’ll kick everything off with why Jordan Tyson, Arizona State wide receiver, is one of the three can’t miss prospects for the New Orleans Saints at the top of the 2026 NFL draft and our midweek mock draft. We got all that and a little bit of land yap for you on today’s episode. 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An embarrassing one. Did you see Young Way Coup try to kick a field goal and kick the dirt like one foot short of the field? Anyway, um when that loss happened, the New York Giants fell to 2 and 11, which is technically worse than the Saints at 2-10. And so the Giants moved up to the number two overall selection, number three overall selection for New Orleans, sitting at uh or is kind of in their hands now at this point. And so for me, Jordan Tyson is a can’t miss guy. 6’2, 200 lb, big- time physical just I’m better than you kind of attitude, wide receiver, one of the most fun wide outs to watch in college football. I know he’s dealing with the hamstring injury right now, which is a little bit of a concerning factor, right? you know that these types of injuries are always when, not if, in terms of any type of reinjury or anything like that. But as he continues to deal with that, ideally much better by the time that he gets into the 2026 NFL season and all can be good to go. Now, I know we’re all very excited about what we saw from Devon Vele over the course of that one game up against the Miami Dolphins last weekend. And maybe you’re saying to yourself, well, why go after another big-bodied wide receiver when you already have one that’s proven that he can be a part of it? Well, porqu noos, why not two, right? Why not both? And so for the Saints, I understand that they could potentially sit there and say, you know what, Devon Vele is the guy across from Chris Olive, but go ahead and get another receiver at this point. We’ll go through like an alternative path to still getting this done at the end of the show today. But if you’re sitting there at pick number three overall and Arbell Reese is off the board, then to me Jordan Tyson and then the safety out of Ohio State, Caleb DS are the three can’t miss prospects in this class, including Ohio State linebacker Arll Reese. And so with Arll Ree off the board in this version of the mockdraft that I did, it’s clear and easy for me that Jordan Tyson at number three makes a ton of sense for New Orleans. He is a dominating presence, a dominating guy. He’s somebody that can be a bit of an accuracy eraser or an inaccuracy eraser for your quarterbacks as well. I think that there’s value in that while you’re still developing a young quarterback in Tyler Shuck. And so to have somebody that can go up there and catch, you know, over 40% of his contested catches in college that averages over two yards per route or two yards per route run in college football. Bringing some of that process and progress over to your team and production over to your team can be very helpful. and his 1.6% drop rate here in 2025 is outstanding. Right now, he sits with just over 700 yards, 711 receiving yards on 97 targets, 61 catches. Again, a little bit of inaccuracy over with that Arizona State quarterback situation, eight receiving touchdowns this year, 10 last year. This guy is a producer. This is what he does. He’s fantastic. And for me, I I get the idea that, you know, Devon Veil gave you a really good game that we’re all really excited about in terms of finally getting the opportunity to see him, but you can’t bank it all on one game, right? Got to see that all the way through. So, as of right now, Jordan Tyson at number three would be a fantastic selection in my view for the New Orleans Saints in the 2026 NFL draft. And honestly, if Devon Veil continues to ascend and continues to arrive and then you resign Chris Olive and then you bring in Jordan Tyson, that’s a really good trio of wide outs to have. You know, you don’t need to have just two. You could have a third really good wide receiver as well and find ways to get the ball to all of these guys and utilize them in a bunch of different ways. You have a guy like Chris Olive who you can move inside and out. You can do the same thing with Devon who can run routes from the boundary as well as on the inside. And then um when it comes to Jordan Tyson, he’s somebody that has taken uh last year in 2024, he took over 160 snaps in the slot. So you could potentially use him there as well as using him outside on the boundary, which is where his focus during his final year here in 2025 in college has been. But it’s not the only thing that he’s ever done. He has gotten work in the slot. So you’d have three versatile pieces, two of which very big physical guys that you could work into some contested catch situations that you can work into the middle of the field and continue to further what it is that you’re trying to do with your offense through that system and through that scheme. So that for me is a big one uh for New Orleans and Jordan Tyson would make a ton of sense. Let’s go to pick number two in our draft here. And for this one, I went to an edge rusher, which I think is the other big need for New Orleans, adding another edge rusher. And so, I went with Joshua Joseph’s, the edge rusher out of Tennessee. He’s smaller and is kind of that standup pass rusher that fits the Brandon Staley defensive system a little bit more than maybe some of the other edge rushers that we’ve seen uh New Orleans work with. His 20.6% 6% pass rush win rate has been outstanding so far this year. He’s also fared pretty well against the run with an 8.2% run stop rate. Both of those are in kind of great to elite conversation amongst this draft class. And he plays a lot of his time outside of the tackles. He can put his hand in the dirt, but he can also stand up and rush the passer for you as well. 6’3, 240 lbs, finishing up his senior year over at Tennessee. He’s been disruptive. He’s found ways to get to the quarterback and have an impact in those situations as well. And he has been somebody that this Tennessee uh defense has loved being able to watch just put his hand in the dirt or rather pin his ears back and then go and rush and get after the passer. He’s got six tackles for loss and four sacks this year. He’s got a total of nine and a half sacks combined over the course of his career. So certainly would like to see that number up a little bit higher, but certainly not somebody to pass on. somebody that I think once you get him in as a full-time pass rusher and allow him to to go out there and be that kind of guy for you, I think that he can be a very very impactful player uh in this New Orleans Saints system. And in handing him over to Brandon Staley, I think would be a very very good run uh for him as well or very good situation rather for him as well. And so I I would be hard you’d be hardressed to find me complaining about the idea of landing this guy uh because I do think that he could be a very impactful player. Is he Arl Reese where you could also drop him back and have him, you know, rush the passer and things like that? No, you’re pro or excuse me, drop him back and have him uh drop back in coverage. I mean, as opposed to rush the passer. No, probably not. Uh it’s probably not the game that you’re expecting from him. But for the Saints, uh, that’s, you know, something that you can supplement in other ways. You know, incorporate more Isaiah Stalird into the defense and stuff like that. Like, there’s a lot of different ways the Saints could go with that to be able to kind of get that extra coverage player that they might want. But for me, Joshua Josephs and his ability as a pass rusher would be very, very hard to pass up on if I’m the New Orleans Saints, just based on what I know I need if I’m this team. You know what I mean? And so getting another one of those disruptive pass rushers to complement and be opposite Chase Young, I think could go a really really long way uh for New Orleans. So that’s our first two picks in the books. And so now we’re going to head over to the continue to focus on the defensive side of the football as we look to bring in a ball hawk and a takeaway machine to this defense. Let’s get to that next as we continue on with today’s episode of Locked on Saints, part of Lockdown Podcast. Network your team every day. Today’s episode of Locked on Saints brought to you by our friends over at Aura Frames. Aura Frames are awesome. And look, I’m a bad giftgiver. I talk about it all the time, but I love giving like digital picture frames for folks. And there is not one better out there than Aura Frames. You can add personalized messages on the inside of the frame so that the gift feels very personal once it’s open. You can even preload photos, 30-se secondond videos with the Aura app as well. And any videos that you preload, you can actually preload before the gift arrives. That way, the memories are already built in. 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You see him consistently around the football. got what Kell Moore called as close to an interception as you can get without an interception uh in the game up against the uh Miami Dolphins, which to me absolutely was an interception, but that’s that’s okay. It’s all right. It’s it’s whatever it is. Uh but I do think that getting another one of those players that can get the ball back to your offense would be big. That’s kind of what they’re saying in Julian Blackman at the safety position next to Justin Reed. Julian Blackman had a season ending injury after the first week. We’ll see if he’s back with New Orleans next season. We know Brandon Staley is a big-time fan of his and has always wanted to work with him, but the Saints will also need to be looking towards the future as well. And so, one of the many safeties that I like in this class, I like Arizona’s Genesis Smith. I like the McNeel kid from uh Toledo. There’s a couple of Alabama SEC guys that I like as well. But one of my favorites is Oregon Ducks safety Dylan Theamman. And I’m not alone in this. I want to I want to toss this over now to our good friend Spencer Mclofflin from over at Locked on Ducks who highlighted Theamman because of a big play that he made just a weekend ago and it gives you an idea of exactly what it is that he could bring to a New Orleans Saints defense. Dylan Theamman keeps playing better and better. He has been everything that we hoped he would be when he came over from Purdue in the off season. He has been so steady, so consistent. game clenching interception there at the end. And I I want to shout out Jaden Kennedy as well. But Dylan Theamman’s ability to play at all three levels, the only thing we haven’t seen him do this year is sack the quarterback and be that kind of blitzer. Guess what? Don’t need him to be. Not not what I was looking for in in the offseason when he came over. I thought, man, be nice to have a rangy safety on the back end. He’s that guy and he does everything. and the way they’re using him in that Caleb DS role. That Caleb DS role. So, interesting to hear that comparison as a part of the evaluation because obviously Caleb DS is one of the three guys that I named at the early part part of the show about one of the three can’t miss prospects in this year’s draft. And so, utilizing him in a similar role, a guy that can drop back, but that can come down and play in the box, all those other things. I do think though that Caleb DS would be a better pass rusher, but that like I I kind of look at it the same way for the Saints as what Spencer was just saying for Oregon is that you don’t necessarily need that from him. You have the potential return of Alante Taylor and a guy that can rush the passer from the inside. You have a guy like Yonas Sanker who can rush from the inside as well. And you might be thinking to yourself, well, what do you do with Yonas Sanker? Like if you go and you spend a third round pick on another safety for a second year in a row, well first of all your hope is that Sanker and Theamman would then be your kind of one two punch your two safety tandem in the future. But at the same time you can roll with Justin Reed and Theaman in the you know deep and then move Yonas into the slot if Alante Taylor signs elsewhere. there are there’s enough versatility between guys like Quincy Riley as well as Yonas Sanker that you can take advantage of that and get all three of these guys out on the field as well. And so I just think that like for a guy 6 foot 200 lb uh eight interceptions over the course of his career, two this year, six just a couple years ago. Uh this is a guy that could come in and have a pretty good impact. Rangy, super uh good at reading and understanding where the offense might be going. Understands play flow well. Just kind of does all of those things. I think that he could be a really really good uh addition for New Orleans to that defense and ideally give them somebody that can get the ball back into the hands of operating under the assumption that Tyler Shuck will be the quarterback in 2026 here of course and so in that case getting the ball back to uh uh uh uh Tyler Shuck in 2026. All right, let’s take a look at the next picks here in round uh four. I went with two selections here. This one was running back Katron Allen out of Penn State and then guard DJ Campbell out of Texas. Now, the thing about this draft class is that there’s not a lot of guards that I would run to the podium for early on in the draft. So, this middle round area is kind of where you might look at the Saints to build up their offensive line or to at least get their best kind of bang for their buck, if you will, when it comes to building up the offensive line. So, I do think that that is a route that they could go. Now, Nick Underh Hill and I over at the NOFF pod were talking on Tuesday about how the Saints could potentially even take a tackle and then move Teleasi Fong to the inside to improve that interior. In any case, the interior needs a lot of help and needs a lot of attention for the Saints and a guy like DJ Campbell could do that. I mean, he’s a big big dude uh that would be able to help to plug up the middle for you and be a guy that can u you know, lead the way in the run game a bit. Uh he is a good mover as well, but his size I think is really really desirable uh in a heavy run system, the one that we expected Kell Moore to bring this year that maybe he’s looking to install next year. 6’3, 321 lbs. That’s a guy that can open up some lanes for you in the middle. He’s aggressive. He moves quickly. Has only allowed one sack so far this season in a Texas season that hasn’t gone extremely well. He’s been one of those sort of developmental bright spots. You’ve seen him get better every year. gave up six sacks back in 2023, but then only three in 24, one in 2025. So, he’s gotten better and better and better. Uh has operated well in the zone game, in the gap game, um all of that. And he’s operated well in true pass sets as well. That’s those true pass sets where you don’t run a play action or move the pocket or anything like that. You’re just dropping back and you’re passing. All of his experience over the course of the past three years has been at right guard. So, are you drafting him to slot in place of Caesar Ruiz or to compete with Caesar Ruiz? Maybe. Maybe you’re drafting him to plug in at left guard. See, maybe you might also add a tackle, then move somebody over uh like a Tales Fong. But outside of all this, I think the most important thing for the Saints to do is address the offensive line in free agency and then treat offensive line additions in the draft this upcoming year as potential development pieces that can then get plugged in at a later time or give you some more valuable young depth. And so I would like to see the Saints be very active on the offensive line in free agency and kind of supplement a little bit in the draft. Now, when it comes to Kron Allen, the running back out of Penn State, this is a guy that I have liked since last year. I was hoping that him and Nicholas Singleton, both of those Penn State uh running backs, were going to end up coming out last year amongst that really good running back class. The Saints got Deon Neil out of that really good running back class. this year, go and get you a guy in the early, you know, early day three at the latest because of what this running back class looks like. This running back class is really, really heavily weighted at the top and then it quickly falls off as you get deeper into day three, maybe even at the end of day two. So, you might even need to go a little bit earlier for a guy like Kron Allen. But, in any case, getting another running back and continuing to build this run game by building up with the offensive line, but adding to the running back position, I think, is a must for New Orleans. 1,33 rushing yards so far this year. Already has 15 touchdowns on the season as well. He’s got two straight thousand yard seasons operating as a guy in partnership with another running back. Like he is in a uh uh what do you call it like a tandem backfield and everything and he’s still producing like that and he’s kind of taken the step ahead of Nicholas Singleton a little bit over the course of this year. just is kind of the smaller of the two, but still enough behind him as well. At 5’11, 219 lbs, only 23 years old by the time that the season begins. This is a guy that you can run out with routes. This is a guy that can pick up yards for you after contact, 24th in the nation in that category. He can run in between the tackles, he can run outside the tackles, and you can utilize him a bunch of different ways. uh and he’s got 17 carries of 15 plus yards. Something that the Saints have not been able to adequately uh get out of their run game for what feels like the past couple of years really, but certainly this year. And so adding a guy like Kron Allen I think could go a long way for New Orleans. So uh we’ll recap the draft here in just a sec and then we’ll go over a couple of alternative options as we do that. So just in case you don’t get the wide receiver early, what’s another route that you can go? We’ll break all that down coming up next as we continue on with today’s episode of Locked on Saints. Put a locked on podcast network. your team every day. 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Frame the entirety of that draft class when you’re drafting that early. We’re presuming in this situation that the Saints are drafting in top three because that’s the hypothetical that we’re working with in terms of this year’s or this where they’re currently positioned in the draft. So, let’s recap the draft that we just did and then we’ll discuss some of the alternatives because if you’re if you’re not trying to screw this up, you’re not going to screw this up and that’s good news for New Orleans. So, let’s dive into this one. So, just to recap our last draft that we just did, wide receiver Jordan Tyson out of Arizona State was our number three overall selection. At number 35, which is the third selection in the second round, uh Joshua Joseph, the edge rusher out of Tennessee. Then we went with safety out of Oregon, Dylan Theamman. At round three, pick 67. We’re going to look at alternatives for all three of those as we wrap up the show. But just as a reminder, at round four, we took Kron Allen at 128, the running back out of Penn State, and DJ Campbell, the guard out of Texas at 138. So, we’re going to leave the round four conversation here. We’re going to focus now on rounds one, two, and three. And look at all the alternatives there. So, in round one, going with Jordan Tyson. Super simple. Three easy alternative candidates. Two of the can’t miss guys that I mentioned. Ohio State linebacker Aral Reese, who’s more than just a middle of the field offball linebacker. He’s a pass rusher. He can cover. He defends the run well. Just kind of does everything. So, he’d be a good fit for this Brandon Staley defense as a chess piece. That’s a part of that. You can go with safety Caleb DS who can cover, who can tackle, come down to the box, who can rush the passer. He’s just very disruptive. Could be a little bit of a Derwin James like safety for um Brandon Saley. And for that reason, I’ll tell you this right now. I don’t care that he’s a safety and I don’t care that we’re talking about number three overall. I couldn’t care less this year about like the the position next to the player’s name. If you think that player can have an impact for you, invest in that player. It does not matter. Positional value out the window for this draft when you’re drafting that high. Just go and grab the player that you think is the can’t miss prospect. And so for me, Arville Reese, Caleb Downs, two of the best prospects in this class. Doesn’t matter that one of those is a safety. Now, understand what I’m saying. That doesn’t mean, you know, oh well, what what if they draft a kicker? Ross, obviously a problem because the kicker is not an impact player and he’s not a can’t miss prospect in the draft, right? So, what I’m saying is best player available, not necessarily best player available at a particular position, right? So, go with the best player that’s available regardless of position. The other guy that’s in there, too, is University of Miami edge rusher Ruben Bane, right? 6’3, 275 lbs. An interesting build to player. There’s question marks, but whether or not he’s going to translate to the NFL, all that. Put him in the right system, it’ll translate 10 times out of 10. That’s all that matters. Is this the right system for him? That would be the scouting department and Brandon Staley having to make that decision for sure. But any of those three alternatives to Jordan Tyson and heck, even a Carnell Tate, another Ohio State product, you could really do just all Ohio State players in the first round and any of them, you’re fine uh in that situation. And so for New Orleans, there would be all of those routes and alternatives at round one. In round two, I think a lot of the best alternatives in that conversation for me revolve around the wide receiver position. If Casey Conception, the uh 59 shifty yards after catch threat game-breaking wide receiver, falls out of the first round, great selection there. Although, it feels like he’s just going to be a Kansas City Chief by the time it’s all said and done cuz that’s that’s those are the kinds of guys that that that team drafts. Uh but if he falls out of the first round, second round, scoop him up. Uh Chris Bell, the wide receiver out of Louisville, who is a big bodied guy, but moves extremely well, can pick up some yards after catch for you there as well. reunite him with uh uh uh uh Tyler Shuck, who we’re assuming, by the way, in this exercise is the quarterback for 2026. That’s why we skip quarterback in the first round, of course. And so, you could end up landing him, pair him back up with Tyler Shuck, let them go to work. Great. Elijah Surat, my one of my favorite wide receivers in this draft class out of Indiana. Same thing, right? Reminds me of Jordan Tyson. You get Jordan Tyson, you can get Jordan Tyson at home. They’re both really, really good. And so, it doesn’t matter. Uh so, Elijah Serat would be a really good one as well. You don’t have to stop there. There’s good defensive tackles in that range. There’s good edge rushers in that range as well. But assuming that we’re operating these alternatives connected, we just went defense and so I might go offense. But again, best player available at the position and then keep moving at round three. Lots of different routes for you to go here if you want an alternative. I think some of the better alternatives are on the defensive line. Guys like u Dante Corleó out of Cincinnati and stuff like that. like I think you can find that, but you can also find a guy like Nicholas Singleton if you want to you want to go for him a little bit early. Another wide receiver like Skyler Bell who’s another good catch and run receiver with Yukon. So, there are those players that you can also find in round three that can make it all worth it for you based upon how you continue to build up this roster. These are guys that can go out there and play for you week one. And so finding those options in rounds 1, two, and three to me is the single most important thing that the Saints must do in the 2026 NFL draft class. And of course, there’s always a trade down option, but we know the Saints haven’t done that since 2007, so we’re not going to hold our breath necessarily on that one. All right, y’all. A little bit of land for you here as we wrap up. Just some transaction news that I want to make sure that you know about. The Saints with an interesting signing. Uh, quarterback Beanie Bishop added to the practice squad and they waved running back Ian Wheeler in order to make room for Bishop. Bishop is an interesting player. 5’9, about 180 lb, 185, 190 lb, somewhere in that range. Kind of your usual slot receiver build, right, that you see across the NFL. Kind of similar build to Asante Samuel Jr., who we thought the Saints might potentially be in on because of the Brandon Staley connection. Well, Beanie Bishop, the Saints are in on because the Grady Brown selection or the Grady Brown uh connection rather, who ended up becoming the Saints quarterback coach this off season, was with the Steelers last year. Asante Samuel Jr. ends up with the Steelers. Beanie Bishop becomes available. The Saints sign Beanie Bishop, see how the world turns. Uh so, uh four interceptions last year as a rookie, undrafted free agent out of West Virginia. He was a player that I really liked in the draft class. I had him as like kind of one of those late round sleepers that I liked. Uh but ends up becoming available. the Saints scoop him up. Played over 400 snaps in the slot last year. We were just talking about how if the Saints don’t have u Alante Taylor back next season that they could be in the market for another slot corner or could move a player from safety to corner or Beanie Bishop could become that guy uh if necessary. So interesting stuff. If nothing else, even if you are able to be fortunate enough to keep Alante Taylor here in New Orleans, then you still want a really good backup in the slot and a guy like Beanie Bishop who could get like a reserve future deal going into next year. Could be a great option there. And then curiously, the Saints also waved wide receiver Kevin Austin Jr. as well as tackle Barry Wesley from the active roster. Now, you might be thinking, well, they didn’t they just activate like they just used the return slot on Barry Wesley coming back for injured reserve. Why, you know, just wave them and move on. Well, it kind of works out. Sinks only have five games left in the season. If anybody goes on injured reserve after next week, their season is done anyway. And then so finding a way maybe to get him up there. But I I’m wondering like we’ve heard a lot about whether or not Trey Palmer is going to be coming back to this team or not. And you know, if he does, it’ be late in the season. Well, we’re late in the season now. And Kevin Austin Jr. just got waved on a team that just that doesn’t have a lot of wide receivers. Now, it could be that Dante Pettis ends up moving up to the active roster and then Kevin Austin Jr. moves to the practice squad. That could happen because Dante Pettis’s three elevations are now up. That would make sense. But I’m always going to be on my Trey Palmer conspiracy watch. I’m waiting to see what’s going to happen with him. And then Barry Wesley uh could potentially end up back at the practice squad or on the practice squad as well. The Ian Wheeler wave could mean one of two things. Could mean that they’re feeling good about where Alvin Camar’s trending. We’ll learn more about that later on today, Thursday and Friday in practice. Or it could simply mean that they like the three guys that they have on the roster now and carrying three active players on the roster at the positions better than carrying two, which is what the Saints were doing for a little while. And notice Evan Hull leapt up just past Audrey Esme right away and got carries uh up against the Miami Dolphins. So we’ll see kind of how the running back position plays out, but certainly some transactions now and things that we’ll continue to watch over the course of the week. And don’t miss tomorrow’s episode. We’ll be taking a look at the Saints and Bucks matchup. James Jarko Lockdown Bucks will be here for crossover Thursday. Don’t forget to check us out on the GF Coast Sports and Entertainment Network. 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Jordyn Tyson headlines the New Orleans Saints’ can’t-miss prospects for the 2026 NFL Draft, with Arizona State’s physical wide receiver an option to elevate New Orleans’ offense alongside Chris Olave and Devaughn Vele. The Saints hold the No. 3 pick, opening the door to foundational talent.

On defense, Tennessee’s pass-rushing standout Joshua Josephs and Oregon safety Dillon Thieneman offer intrigue, with Thieneman praised for his ball-hawking skills and Caleb Downs-style versatility. Running back Kaytron Allen and Texas guard DJ Campbell emerge as mid-round value picks for a rejuvenated run game and offensive line depth. Alternatives like Ohio State’s Arvell Reese and Miami’s Rueben Bain Jr. remain in play, while recent roster moves—including the addition of Beanie Bishop—raise new questions about the Saints’ plans in the slot and backfield.

0:24 – Jordyn Tyson A Can’t-Miss Prospect
10:36 – Defense Needs Takeaway Magnet
20:23 – Arvell Reese Among Alternative Picks

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