{"id":858830,"date":"2026-04-07T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858830\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:04:17","slug":"history-of-saints-nfl-draft-trades-under-mickey-loomis-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858830\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Saints\u2019 NFL Draft trades under Mickey Loomis | Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ask 100 people, Family Feud style, for the most notable thing about the New Orleans Saints\u2019 haul in the 2025 NFL Draft, and \u201cTyler Shough\u201d would be the No. 1 answer<\/a>. In fact, there might not be another answer.<\/p>\n

But as uncommon as it is for the Saints to take a quarterback high in the draft, they managed to do something else last year that\u2019s even more rare.<\/p>\n

It was the first time in 12 years that general manager Mickey Loomis and the New Orleans front office did not swing a trade during the draft.<\/p>\n

Some of the trades have been seismic. Trading up to No. 6 to select defensive tackle Johnathan Sullivan in Loomis\u2019 first draft as GM in 2003. Coming up for Mark Ingram in 2011. Multiple first-round trades in 2022 to get Chris Olave and Trevor Penning.<\/p>\n

Many others have been ordinary and all but forgotten, pick swaps that happen deep into the draft on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

One thing is for sure: New Orleans is among the most active trade partners in the NFL, and history tells us (assuming last year was an aberration) that there will be wheeling and dealing during this year\u2019s draft<\/a> from April 23-25 in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a complete history of the Saints\u2019 draft-day trades under Loomis\u2019 leadership. (Note: Only trades made during the draft are listed here.)<\/p>\n

2003 draft<\/p>\n

WITH ARIZONA<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 6 pick (DT Johnathan Sullivan), No. 37 (OT Jon Stinchcomb), No. 102 (G Montrae Holland)<\/p>\n

Cardinals received: No. 17 pick (WR Bryant Johnson), No. 18 pick (LB Calvin Pace), No. 54 pick (WR Anquan Boldin)<\/p>\n

Note: Perhaps it\u2019s fitting that Loomis\u2019 first trade as GM was an aggressive move up in the first round, although the best players for both teams in this deal came later in the draft with Stinchcomb and Boldin.<\/p>\n

WITH NEW ENGLAND<\/p>\n

Saints received: S Tebucky Jones<\/p>\n

Patriots received: No. 78 pick (flipped to Dolphins, OT Wade Smith), No. 239 (LB Tully Banta-Cain)<\/p>\n

WITH SEATTLE<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 203 pick (WR Kareem Kelly)<\/p>\n

Seahawks received: DT Norman Hand<\/p>\n

2004 draft<\/p>\n

WITH MINNESOTA<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 50 pick (WR Devery Henderson), No. 151 (flipped to Washington \u2014 see below)<\/p>\n

Vikings received: No. 48 pick (LB Dontarrious Thomas)<\/p>\n

WITH WASHINGTON<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 139 pick (DT Rodney Leisle), 2005 second-round pick (S Josh Bullocks)<\/p>\n

Washington received: No. 81 (TE Chris Cooley), No. 151 (OT Mark Wilson)<\/p>\n

WITH JACKSONVILLE<\/p>\n

Saints received: CB Jason Craft<\/p>\n

Jaguars received: No. 150 pick (CB Chris Thompson)<\/p>\n

WITH DALLAS<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 156 pick (FB Mike Karney)<\/p>\n

Cowboys received: No. 182 (flipped to Raiders, LB Cody Spencer), No. 206 (flipped to Buccaneers, WR Mark Jones)<\/p>\n

2005 draft<\/p>\n

WITH HOUSTON<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 13 pick (OT Jammal Brown)<\/p>\n

Texans received: No. 16 (DT Travis Johnson), 2006 second-round pick (OT Eric Winston)<\/p>\n

2006 draft<\/p>\n

WITH CLEVELAND<\/p>\n

Saints received: C Jeff Faine, No. 43 pick (S Roman Harper)<\/p>\n

Browns received: No. 34 (LB D\u2019Qwell Jackson)<\/p>\n

2007 draft<\/p>\n

WITH DETROIT<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 66 pick (CB Usama Young), No. 145 (CB David Jones)<\/p>\n

Lions received: No. 58 pick (DE Ikaika Alama-Francis)<\/p>\n

Note: If you\u2019re counting, only four of these 38 trades were the Saints trading down in the draft. This was the most recent. So it would go against a 19-year trend if New Orleans were to move back from No. 8 this month.<\/p>\n

WITH HOUSTON<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 107 pick (RB Antonio Pittman)<\/p>\n

Texans received: No. 123 (CB Fred Bennett), No. 163 (OT Brandon Frye)<\/p>\n

2008 draft<\/p>\n

WITH NEW ENGLAND<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 7 pick (DT Sedrick Ellis), No. 164 (OT Carl Nicks)<\/p>\n

Patriots received: No. 10 (LB Jerod Mayo), No. 78 (LB Shawn Crable)<\/p>\n

Note: This was the last time the Saints picked as high as No. 8.<\/p>\n

WITH DETROIT<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 144 pick (DT DeMario Pressley)<\/p>\n

Lions received: No. 146 (FB Jerome Felton), No. 218 (S Caleb Campbell)<\/p>\n

WITH GREEN BAY<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 237 pick (WR Adrian Arrington)<\/p>\n

Packers received: 2009 sixth-round pick (CB Brandon Underwood)<\/p>\n

2009 draft<\/p>\n

WITH PHILADELPHIA<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 164 pick (P Thomas Morstead)<\/p>\n

Eagles received: No. 222 (flipped to Colts, P Pat McAfee), 2010 fifth-round pick (flipped to Dolphins, S Reshad Jones)<\/p>\n

Note: Want to impress friends with some trivia? Thomas Morstead and Pat McAfee were traded for each other (sort of) on draft night.<\/p>\n

2010 draft<\/p>\n

WITH ARIZONA<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 123 pick (DT Al Woods)<\/p>\n

Cardinals received: No. 130 (DE O\u2019Brien Schofield), No. 201 (CB Jorrick Calvin)<\/p>\n

WITH JACKSONVILLE<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 158 pick (C Matt Tennant)<\/p>\n

Jaguars received: 2011 fourth-round pick (S Chris Prosinski)<\/p>\n

2011 draft<\/p>\n

WITH NEW ENGLAND<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 28 pick (RB Mark Ingram II)<\/p>\n

Patriots received: No. 56 pick (RB Shane Vereen), 2012 first-round pick (flipped to Bengals, G Kevin Zeitler)<\/p>\n

2012 draft<\/p>\n

No draft-day trades<\/p>\n

Note: One reason this was the outlier year with no trades? The Saints didn\u2019t have many picks to deal. They had already traded their first-rounder in the Ingram deal in 2011, and they had to forfeit their second-round pick in the aftermath of Bountygate.<\/p>\n

2013 draft<\/p>\n

WITH N.Y. JETS<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 106 pick (flipped to Dolphins \u2014 see below)<\/p>\n

Jets received: RB Chris Ivory<\/p>\n

WITH MIAMI<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 82 pick (DT John Jenkins)<\/p>\n

Dolphins received: No. 106 (TE Dion Sims), No. 109 (flipped to Packers, OT David Bakhtiari)<\/p>\n

2014 draft<\/p>\n

WITH ARIZONA<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 20 pick (WR Brandin Cooks)<\/p>\n

Cardinals received: No. 27 (S Deone Bucannon), No. 91 (WR John Brown)<\/p>\n

2015 draft<\/p>\n

WITH WASHINGTON<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 167 pick (CB Damian Swann)<\/p>\n

Washington received: No. 187 (WR Evan Spencer), 2016 sixth-round pick (QB Nate Sudfeld)<\/p>\n

2016 draft<\/p>\n

WITH NEW ENGLAND<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 61 pick (S Vonn Bell)<\/p>\n

Patriots received: No. 78 (G Joe Thuney), No.112 (WR Malcolm Mitchell)<\/p>\n

WITH WASHINGTON<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 120 pick (DT David Onyemata)<\/p>\n

Washington received: No. 152 (DT Matt Ioannidis), 2017 fifth-round pick (TE Jeremy Sprinkle)<\/p>\n

Note: The 2017 draft rightfully gets a lot of attention, but the year before, the Saints took Sheldon Rankins and All-Pro receiver Michael Thomas in the first two rounds, then swung these two deals that produced multi-year starters later in the draft.<\/p>\n

2017 draft<\/p>\n

WITH SAN FRANCISCO<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 67 pick (RB Alvin Kamara)<\/p>\n

49ers received: No. 229 (CB Adrian Colbert), 2018 second-round pick (flipped to Washington, RB Derrius Guice)<\/p>\n

Note: A key component of perhaps the best draft in team history.<\/p>\n

2018 draft<\/p>\n

WITH GREEN BAY<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 14 pick (DE Marcus Davenport)<\/p>\n

Packers received: No. 27 (flipped to Seahawks, RB Rashaad Penny), No. 147 (flipped to Rams, LB Micah Kiser), 2019 first-round pick (flipped to Giants, CB Deandre Baker)<\/p>\n

2019 draft<\/p>\n

WITH MIAMI<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 48 pick (C Erik McCoy), No. 116 (flipped to Jets \u2014 see below)<\/p>\n

Dolphins received: No. 62 (flipped to Cardinals, WR Andy Isabella), No. 202 (OT Isaiah Prince), 2020 second-round pick (DT Raekwon Davis)<\/p>\n

WITH N.Y. JETS<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 105 pick (S C.J. Gardner-Johnson)<\/p>\n

Jets received: No. 116 (flipped to Titans, S Amani Hooker), No. 168 (flipped to Titans, LB D\u2019Andre Walker)<\/p>\n

2020 draft<\/p>\n

WITH CLEVELAND<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 74 pick (LB Zack Baun), No. 244 (flipped to Vikings, see below)<\/p>\n

Browns received: No. 88 (DT Jordan Elliott), 2021 third-round pick (WR Anthony Schwartz)<\/p>\n

WITH MINNESOTA<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 105 pick (TE Adam Trautman)<\/p>\n

Vikings received: No. 130 (DT James Lynch), No. 169 (CB Harrison Hand), No. 203 (OT Blake Brandel), No. 244 (QB Nate Stanley)<\/p>\n

WITH HOUSTON<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 240 (QB Tommy Stevens)<\/p>\n

Texans received: 2021 sixth-round pick (flipped to Bills, S Damar Hamlin)<\/p>\n

Note: The Saints traded every remaining pick they had for the rights to draft Trautman \u2014 and then got back into the draft anyway by giving up a 2021 selection.<\/p>\n

2021 draft<\/p>\n

WITH DENVER<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 76 (CB Paulson Adebo)<\/p>\n

Broncos received: No. 98 (G Quinn Meinerz), No. 105 (LB Baron Browning)<\/p>\n

WITH INDIANAPOLIS<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 206 pick (OT Landon Young)<\/p>\n

Colts received: No. 218 (QB Sam Ehlinger), No. 229 (WR Mike Strachan)<\/p>\n

2022 draft<\/p>\n

WITH WASHINGTON<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 11 pick (WR Chris Olave)<\/p>\n

Commanders received: No. 16 (WR Jahan Dotson), No. 98 (RB Brian Robinson Jr.), No. 120 (flipped to Panthers, LB Brandon Smith)<\/p>\n

Note: The No. 16 pick came in a pre-draft deal with the Philadelphia Eagles that cost the Saints the No. 10 pick in 2023.<\/p>\n

2023 draft<\/p>\n

WITH CHICAGO<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 103 pick (OT Nick Saldiveri)<\/p>\n

Bears received: No. 115 (RB Roschon Johnson), No. 165 (CB Terell Smith)<\/p>\n

WITH JACKSONVILLE<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 127 pick (QB Jake Haener)<\/p>\n

Jaguars received: No. 227 (DT Raymond Vohasek), 2024 fourth-round pick (DT Jordan Jefferson)<\/p>\n

WITH DENVER<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 195 pick (WR A.T. Perry)<\/p>\n

Broncos received: TE Adam Trautman, No. 257 (C Alex Forsyth)<\/p>\n

2024 draft<\/p>\n

WITH GREEN BAY<\/p>\n

Saints received: No. 41 pick (CB Kool-Aid McKinstry)<\/p>\n

Packers received: No. 45 (LB Edgerrin Cooper), No. 168 (flipped to Bills, DE Javon Solomon), No. 190 (flipped to Eagles, C Dylan McMahon)<\/p>\n

2025 draft<\/p>\n

No draft-day trades<\/p>\n

Note: For the first time since 2015, the Saints made their first three picks without any swapping, taking Kelvin Banks, Tyler Shough and Vernon Broughton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ask 100 people, Family Feud style, for the most notable thing about the New Orleans Saints\u2019 haul in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858831,"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-858830","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\/116363333890728509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858830","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=858830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}