{"id":872285,"date":"2026-04-23T00:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872285\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:18:18","slug":"video-report-ahead-of-nfl-draft-saints-gm-mickey-loomis-says-were-not-one-player-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872285\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO REPORT: Ahead of NFL Draft, Saints GM Mickey Loomis says, “We’re not one player away”"},"content":{"rendered":"

VIDEO REPORT: Ahead of NFL Draft, Saints GM Mickey Loomis says, “We’re not one player away”<\/p>\n

VIDEO REPORT: Ahead of NFL Draft, Saints GM Mickey Loomis says, “We’re not one player away” <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBeing aggressive versus being patient in the upcoming NFL draft. Look, the Saints in the past with Drew Brees and those loaded teams, they could afford being aggressive. Now it’s *** little bit of *** different approach for Mickey Loomis and company. When you have *** young quarterback and you’re developing your roster, then you’re not one player away, so you’re less inclined to give up. You know, *** number of assets, uh, to get, you know, one player, uh, that’s probably the best way I can describe it. Well, where, where are you guys though? I mean, after the success you had late last year, yeah, we’re not one player, we’re not one player away. And even after the late season success the Saints have, Loomis says the approach still not changing. That’s *** 5 game stretch, right, or 6 game stretch, so. I don’t want to read too much into that. We’re excited we’re optimistic about our future, but we’re not. By no means have we arrived anywhere. So when it comes to being aggressive in the NFL draft and moving up, Mickey Loomis has done that quite *** few times, but moving back in the first round, just forget about it because it has never happened under Loomis in Metari, Sharif Aisak, WDSU News.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

VIDEO REPORT: Ahead of NFL Draft, Saints GM Mickey Loomis says, “We’re not one player away”<\/p>\n

VIDEO REPORT: Ahead of NFL Draft, Saints GM Mickey Loomis says, “We’re not one player away” <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 6:38 PM CDT Apr 22, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe New Orleans Saints go into the 2026 NFL Draft with eight total picks, three of them in the top 75.Their first selection Thursday night will be eighth overall.For general manager Mickey Loomis, he has to weigh being aggressive versus being patient in this draft.In the past with Drew Brees and those loaded teams, the Saints could afford being aggressive but now it’s a different approach for Loomis and the team.”When you have a young quarterback and you’re developing your roster, then you’re not one player away, so you’re less inclined to give up, you know, a number of assets, to get one player,” Loomis said.Loomis was asked if the success they had to close out the 2025 season would affect their aggressiveness in this draft.”Yeah, we’re not one player away, that’s a five game stretch or six game stretch so I don’t want to read too much into that, we’re excited, we’re optimistic, about our future, but we’re not by no means have we arrived anywhere.”Under Mickey Loomis the Saints have never traded back in the first round.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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The New Orleans Saints go into the 2026 NFL Draft with eight total picks, three of them in the top 75.<\/p>\n

Their first selection Thursday night will be eighth overall.<\/p>\n

For general manager Mickey Loomis, he has to weigh being aggressive versus being patient in this draft.<\/p>\n

In the past with Drew Brees and those loaded teams, the Saints could afford being aggressive but now it’s a different approach for Loomis and the team.<\/p>\n

“When you have a young quarterback and you’re developing your roster, then you’re not one player away, so you’re less inclined to give up, you know, a number of assets, to get one player,” Loomis said.<\/p>\n

Loomis was asked if the success they had to close out the 2025 season would affect their aggressiveness in this draft.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, we’re not one player away, that’s a five game stretch or six game stretch so I don’t want to read too much into that, we’re excited, we’re optimistic, about our future, but we’re not by no means have we arrived anywhere.”<\/p>\n

Under Mickey Loomis the Saints have never traded back in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO REPORT: Ahead of NFL Draft, Saints GM Mickey Loomis says, “We’re not one player away” VIDEO REPORT:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[16129,118188,13189,7,118189,118187,20997,574,896,55,2572,2571,6,15,668,5013,188,397,118186,185,24157,7918],"class_list":{"0":"post-872285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-asset","9":"tag-different-approach","10":"tag-drew-brees","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-game-stretch","13":"tag-general-manager-mickey-loomis","14":"tag-loomis","15":"tag-mickey-loomis","16":"tag-new-orleans","17":"tag-new-orleans-saints","18":"tag-neworleans","19":"tag-neworleanssaints","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-nfl-draft","22":"tag-number","23":"tag-past","24":"tag-player","25":"tag-saints","26":"tag-saints-gm-mickey-loomis","27":"tag-team","28":"tag-video-report","29":"tag-young-quarterback"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116451155932314671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872285","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=872285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}