New Orleans Saints 2025 NFL Mock Draft: Starting fresh at quarterback

• Shedeur Sanders, the Saints’ rookie QB1: The Colorado quarterback has avoided mistakes incredibly well in college.

• Day 2 focuses on the trenches: A new interior defensive and offensive lineman would add to the Saints’ depth on both sides of the ball.

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The New Orleans Saints have already made a coaching change this season, so we know 2025 will be an offseason with plenty of overhauls for them.

Here we look at what we would do if we were drafting the Saints today, including giving them a potential new franchise quarterback in the first round.

Round 1 (10): QB Shedeur Sanders, Colorado

While Derek Carr has played well at points in 2024, a new coaching staff will take over in New Orleans in 2025, and it would make sense to build around a rookie quarterback in that case. Sanders is elite at passing the football with a turnover rate of just 1.7% in his four-year college career. He has passed a career high 90.4 PFF this season.

Round 2 (42): DI Omarr Norman-Lott, Tennessee

Getting better in the trenches should be another goal for the Saints this offseason, and Norman-Lott would fit the bill on Day 2. He has secured a 77.8 PFF pass-rush grade in 2024, racking up 24 total pressures, including 11 combined sacks and quarterback hits from 116 pass-rushing snaps so far this season.

Round 3 (74): G Tyler Booker, Alabama

Rounding out Day 3 with an offensive trenches player, Booker could contend to start right away in the NFL. He has earned a PFF pass-blocking grade over 70.0 in three straight seasons in college and has a PFF run-blocking grade over 65.0 in each of the last two.