The 2023 NFL draft order projections have updated after Week 11, meaning the New Orleans Saints’ pick going to the Philadelphia Eagles has moved out of the top-4 selections. That’s a little bit of good news for New Orleans, but it still isn’t great: Tankathon projects that first-round draft choice in 2023 to end up at No. 10 overall.
It’s still well above where the Saints thought they’d be picking in 2023. They traded that pick to the Eagles thinking it would fall somewhere in the 20’s after they got back into the playoffs this season, but Dennis Allen’s team hasn’t met those expectations just yet. When they made the decision to trade that pick to Philadelphia so they could use it a year early on another player (which ended up being left tackle Trevor Penning), the thought was it wouldn’t be a very valuable asset.
