Pro Football Writers of America All-Rookie team<\/a>.<\/p>\nHere\u2019s a look at some of the prominent projections this week:<\/p>\n
ESPN: Jordyn Tyson, wide receiver, Arizona State<\/p>\n
ESPN\u2019s Mel Kiper Jr. highlighted that the Saints only had one player, not named Chris Olave, who finished the season with over 300 receiving yards \u2014 Rashid Shaheed, who was traded to the Seattle Seahawks at the mid-season deadline.<\/p>\n
SB Nation: Carnell Tate, wide receiver, Ohio State<\/p>\n
In 11 games this past season, Tate grabbed 51 catches for 875 yards and 9 touchdowns. A standout highlight he had from the year was a touchdown he snatched over two Wisconsin defenders as his helmet came off.<\/p>\n
ClutchPoints: Carnell Tate, wide receiver, Ohio State<\/p>\n
The outlet previously projected Texas Tech edge rusher David Bailey to go to New Orleans at this pick, but shift to the offensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n
WalterFootball: Jordyn Tyson, wide receiver, Arizona State<\/p>\n
The self-proclaimed \u201cmost accurate\u201d mock draft, WalterFootball also has the Saints selecting a wideout.<\/p>\n
\u201cJordyn Tyson is a speedy, explosive receiver with quality size,\u201d the platform wrote.<\/p>\n
ProFootballFocus: Peter Woods, defensive lineman, Clemson<\/p>\n
PFF has both Tate and Tyson off the board by 8, so in comes Clemson defensive tackle Peter Woods. The platform pointed to the underwhelming start of Bryan Bresee\u2019s career as justification for going to the defensive line in the first round.<\/p>\n
Woods finished the 2025 season with 9 solo tackles and 2 sacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The season for 2026 NFL mock drafts is under way, and it\u2019s time to take a look at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,4095,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-697009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-hardwall","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanssaints","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115940359311282291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697009","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=697009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}