{"id":872216,"date":"2026-04-22T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872216\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:00:16","slug":"the-full-history-of-lsu-tigers-picked-by-the-new-orleans-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872216\/","title":{"rendered":"The Full History of LSU Tigers Picked by the New Orleans Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints have established a specific, odd, track record when it comes to selecting college football players from LSU during the NFL Draft. The only NFL team that operates in the state of <a href=\"https:\/\/1130thetiger.com\/tags\/louisiana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Louisiana<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/1130thetiger.com\/nfl-draft-saints-lsu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">consistently skips over available prospects coming out of Baton Rouge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints have not utilized a draft pick on an LSU player since taking center Will Clapp with their final pick in the 2018 draft. The front office has made dozens of selections across multiple seasons without bringing another former Tiger onto the main roster&#8230;continuing an eight year drought.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, the <a href=\"https:\/\/1130thetiger.com\/tags\/new-orleans-saints\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saints<\/a> have NEVER taken an <a href=\"https:\/\/1130thetiger.com\/tags\/lsu-football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LSU Tiger <\/a>in the First Round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/1130thetiger.com\/tags\/nfl-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NFL Draft<\/a>, EVER.<\/p>\n<p>Other NFL Franchises Build With LSU Players<\/p>\n<p>While the Saints look elsewhere for draft picks&#8230;other <a href=\"https:\/\/lsusports.net\/nfl\/nfldraft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">other teams aggressively target the talent pipeline coming from the Tigers<\/a>. Other franchises continuously load their depth charts with<a href=\"https:\/\/lsusports.net\/nfl\/nfldraft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> highly rated prospects produced by LSU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/1130thetiger.com\/mudbugs-nhl-debut-sergeev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former Shreveport Mudbug Makes NHL Debut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants lead the current draft metrics by each <a href=\"https:\/\/lsusports.net\/nfl\/nfldraft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">selecting 21 former LSU players<\/a> over the course of their franchise history. The Detroit Lions have also<a href=\"https:\/\/lsusports.net\/nfl\/nfldraft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> utilized 18 total draft picks on Tigers<\/a> to help construct their active team rosters over the years.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NFL Draft Schedule<\/p>\n<p>The latest selection process for incoming college talent begins later this week with the initial round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NFL Draft<\/a>. The event will start on Thursday, April 23rd, with a gigantic TV spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>The event continues through the weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/news\/how-to-watch-and-follow-the-2026-nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with the final rounds wrapping up on Saturday April 25th<\/a>. The New Orleans Saints plan enter the draft with the 8th overall pick, but don&#8217;t expect them to use it on a Tiger.<\/p>\n<p>Lets take a look at the complete list of LSU Tigers that have been selected by the Saints&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Every LSU Player Drafted By The New Orleans Saints<\/p>\n<p>The New Orleans Saints appear to be allergic to drafting LSU players. Since the franchise started, they&#8217;ve picked less than a dozen LSU Tigers in the annual NFL Draft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints have established a specific, odd, track record when it comes to selecting college football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,5102,896,55,2572,2571,88,6,397,8894,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-872216","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-national-news","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanssaints","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints","17":"tag-shreveport-news","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116450611885333801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872216","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=872216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}