It’s been a surprisingly controversial offseason for the New Orleans Saints. A lot of NFL media prognosticators went ahead and wrote them off as a team that’s going to be bad this year, suggesting that the Saints should lean into it and sell off their good players so they could kick off a miserable rebuild.
But the Saints didn’t do that. They spent more money than almost any other team in the league to recruit a new starting quarterback and reinforce their depth in free agency while holding onto some key contributors. But it wasn’t enough to impress CBS Sports’ Cody Benjamin, who graded the Saints a C in his 2023 offseason grades:
