We’re on to Day 3 of the 2023 NFL draft. We’ve already broken down the top 50 available players, but the New Orleans Saints tend to take a fine-toothed comb to the draft class while looking for their best fits.
With that in mind, here are 20 prospects who best fit what the Saints look for, athletically and schematically, ranging from South Carolina cornerback Darius Rush to UCLA quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson. The team has met with many of these players either privately on campus or in formal visits at the team facility. With five picks left to them in 2023, expect them to target some of these prospects:
1
CB Darius Rush, South Carolina
2
OL Chandler Zavala, North Carolina State
3
OL Blake Freeland, BYU
4
WR A.T. Perry, Wake Forest
5
OL Braeden Daniels, Utah
6
OL Jaelyn Duncan, Maryland
7
QB Jaren Hall, BYU
8
CB Cory Trice, Purdue
9
WR Andrei Iosivas, Princeton
10
DT Moro Ojomo, Texas
11
LB Noah Sewell, Oregon
12
QB Clayton Tune, Houston
13
OL Sidy Sow, Eastern Michigan
14
LB Yasir Abdullah, Louisville
15
FB Hunter Luepke, North Dakota State
16
S Jason Taylor II, Oklahoma State
17
LB Jeremy Banks, Tennessee
18
S Jordan Howden, Minnesota
19
DL Scott Matlock, Boise State
20
QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson, UCLA
