{"id":857801,"date":"2026-04-06T23:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857801\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:58:17","slug":"new-orleans-saints-connected-to-speedy-weapon-with-no-8-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857801\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints Connected to Speedy Weapon With No. 8 Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last offseason, first-year head coach Kellen Moore locked in on selecting Tyler Shough with the 40th overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. With that selection, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/new-orleans-saints\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"777\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Saints<\/a> believe they discovered their new franchise quarterback. Considering Shough helped lead the Saints to a respectable 5-4 record as a rookie, they may indeed have someone special in their QB room. <\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s time to weaponize their young quarterback with a more complete cast of pass-catchers. After all, Chris Olave and Juwan Johnson can\u2019t do it all by themselves. <\/p>\n<p>However, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentiallysports.com\/nfl-active-news-sources-colts-eye-elijah-sarratt-as-michael-pittman-jr-replacement-steelers-jets-high-on-omar-cooper-jr\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.essentiallysports.com\/nfl-active-news-sources-colts-eye-elijah-sarratt-as-michael-pittman-jr-replacement-steelers-jets-high-on-omar-cooper-jr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Essentially Sports\u2019 NFL insider Tony Pauline<\/a>, the Saints \u201cwill address the receiver and tight end positions in the draft.\u201d Moreso, Pauline added that \u201cit could be a situation where the team takes Kenyon Sadiq with its first-round pick, then drafts a pass-rusher in the second round and finishes out Day 2 with a receiver such as Elijah Sarratt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadiq is the best tight end prospect in the draft. After clocking a new NFL Scouting Combine record (for a tight end) 4.39-second 40 yard dash, Sadiq is projected to be a top-20 selection in the 2026 NFL Draft. Yet, as Pauline speculates, Sadiq could be in play much higher, possibly even as high as No. 8 to the Saints, where he\u2019d help compose a suddenly great tight end room along with Johnson and recent signee Noah Fant. <\/p>\n<p>As for Sarratt, the Indiana receiver viewed as more of a second to third-round pick. Considering the Saints have the 73rd overall pick, Sarratt could certainly be in play on Day 2 for New Orleans. <\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nfl\/new-orleans-saints-rueben-bain-perfect-fit\" type=\"post\" id=\"1410474\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Saints Connected to Young \u2018Game-Wrecker\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775519897_982_cdc369fe6a9c435ab1a9344f358409a43c884a12b775d8a8492a08641e9e201e.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tDedicated  NFL  copywriter\/editor.  My  work  has  been  found  on  Sportsnaut,  Sports  Illustrated,  Sporting  News,  MSN,  Yahoo,  and  Minnesota  Sports  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/andrewbr2020\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Buller-Russ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last offseason, first-year head coach Kellen Moore locked in on selecting Tyler Shough with the 40th overall pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-857801","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-new-orleans","10":"tag-new-orleans-saints","11":"tag-neworleans","12":"tag-neworleanssaints","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116360480901096260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857801","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=857801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}