{"id":3153,"date":"2025-04-27T03:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T03:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/3153\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T03:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T03:15:13","slug":"2025-saints-draft-picks-full-list-player-profiles-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/3153\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Saints Draft Picks | Full List, Player Profiles &#038; Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints selected offensive lineman <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/team\/players-roster\/kelvin-banks-jr\/\" title=\"Kelvin Banks Jr.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelvin Banks Jr.<\/a> from Texas with the ninth pick in the 2025 NFL Draft on Thursday, April 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Kelvin Banks Jr., a 6-foot-5, 315-pound junior from Humble, Texas, was one of the most decorated offensive linemen in the country during his three-year run with the Longhorns. A consensus five-star recruit out of high school, Banks started all 42 games of his college career at left tackle and was a cornerstone of a Texas offensive line that powered the program to the College Football Playoff in 2024. That season, he won the Lombardi Award and Outland Trophy, was named a First-Team AP All-American, and shared the Jacobs Blocking Trophy as the SEC&#8217;s top lineman. Banks allowed just one sack in each of his last two seasons and anchored one of the top pass-blocking units in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints selected offensive lineman Kelvin Banks Jr. from Texas with the ninth pick in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[39,2990,2991,2600,2992,2993,1933,1196,2986,1764,1448,750,19,508,2989,7,1765,2987,81,2985,2988,896,55,2572,2571,6,1452,397,283,1197],"class_list":{"0":"post-3153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-2025-draft","9":"tag-2025pick112","10":"tag-2025pick131","11":"tag-2025pick184","12":"tag-2025pick248","13":"tag-2025pick254","14":"tag-2025pick40","15":"tag-2025pick71","16":"tag-2025pick9","17":"tag-2025pick93","18":"tag-danny-stutsman","19":"tag-devin-neal","20":"tag-draft","21":"tag-draft-tracker-card","22":"tag-fadil-diggs","23":"tag-football","24":"tag-jonas-sanker","25":"tag-kelvin-banks-jr","26":"tag-latest-news","27":"tag-latest-videos","28":"tag-moliki-matavao","29":"tag-new-orleans","30":"tag-new-orleans-saints","31":"tag-neworleans","32":"tag-neworleanssaints","33":"tag-nfl","34":"tag-quincy-riley","35":"tag-saints","36":"tag-tyler-shough","37":"tag-vernon-broughton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114407757214389011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}