{"id":849381,"date":"2026-04-02T14:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849381\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:26:17","slug":"saints-build-toward-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849381\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints Build Toward 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With free agency signings and trades clarifying the roster-building picture for many teams, let&#8217;s take another spin at projecting Round 1 of the 2026 NFL Draft. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/lance-zierlein-2026-nfl-mock-draft-3-0-cowboys-hit-the-jackpot-at-no-12-plus-two-trades\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lance Zierlein 2026 NFL mock draft 3.0: Cowboys hit the jackpot at No. 12, plus two trades\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, I do think about your team when conducting mock draft exercises. Quite deeply, actually. I think about their immediate needs and their long-term ones. I think about who they have and don&#8217;t have on the roster. What scheme they run. Which position groups feature older and costlier players. Which position groups they drafted prospects at last year, and the year before that. Which picks the team has coming up next &#8230; <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/2026-nfl-draft-ideal-top-two-picks-for-every-team\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"2026 NFL Draft: Ideal top two picks for every team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With free agency signings and trades clarifying the roster-building picture for many teams, let&#8217;s take another spin at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,81,2003,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-849381","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-latest-news","10":"tag-morning-break","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116335580719944442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849381","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=849381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}