{"id":4942,"date":"2025-04-27T18:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/4942\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T18:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T18:40:14","slug":"one-stat-that-defines-every-rookie-in-the-2025-new-orleans-saints-draft-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/4942\/","title":{"rendered":"One stat that defines every rookie in the 2025 New Orleans Saints draft class"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Orleans Saints<\/a> didn’t make any draft-day trades for the first time in 13 years, instead choosing to stick and pick with all of their picks in the 2025 NFL draft. As we review their draft class, here is one stat about each rookie to give an understanding of what kind of player they are.<\/p>\n

Kelvin Banks Jr., Round 1\"USA<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

PFF credits Banks with just four sacks allowed over his career<\/p>\n

Tyler Shough, Round 2\"USA<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Shough tied first overall pick, Cam Ward, with the fourth most 50+ yard completions in the FBS<\/p>\n

Vernon Broughton, Round 3\"USA<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Broughton only started two games in his career before starting 15 games in his breakout redshirt senior season<\/p>\n

Jonas Sanker, Round 3\"USA<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Sanker led Virginia in tackles in each of the last two seasons<\/p>\n

Danny Stutsman, Round 4\"USA<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Stutsman has the ninth-most tackles in Oklahoma history<\/p>\n

Quincy Riley, Round 4\"USA<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Riley led the Conference USA (2021) and ACC (2024) in passes defensed<\/p>\n

Devin Neal, Round 6\"USA<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Neal is Kansas\u2019 all time leader in rushing yards, rushing touchdowns, scrimmage touchdowns and games with 100 yard rushing<\/p>\n

Moliki Matavao, Round 7\"USA<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

359 of Matavao’s 998 career yards came in the last 5 games of 2024<\/p>\n

Fadil Diggs, Round 7\"USA<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Diggs nearly doubled his career sack total as a senior. Finished with 7.5 sacks in 2024 after accumulating 8 sacks in the previous four seasons<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Saints Wire: One stat that defines each rookie in the 2025 Saints draft class<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints didn’t make any draft-day trades for the first time in 13 years, instead choosing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[80,127,1448,750,3990,2989,7,1765,1492,896,55,2572,2571,6,1452,397,283],"class_list":{"0":"post-4942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-cam-ward","10":"tag-danny-stutsman","11":"tag-devin-neal","12":"tag-draft-class","13":"tag-fadil-diggs","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-jonas-sanker","16":"tag-kelvin-banks","17":"tag-new-orleans","18":"tag-new-orleans-saints","19":"tag-neworleans","20":"tag-neworleanssaints","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-quincy-riley","23":"tag-saints","24":"tag-tyler-shough"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114411394013708932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942","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=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}