Everyone knows the New Orleans Saints favor size and length at defensive end — head coach Dennis Allen said as much at NFL owners meetings last week, identifying those physical attributes as a big factor in setting the position’s athletic prototype.
We can argue over how flexible the Saints should be when it comes to evaluating prospects, but with the 2023 NFL draft rapidly approaching, it’s worth looking into the factors they’ve shown us they value. To that end, we tracked the height, weight, arm length, and athletic testing results for all 14 defensive ends to have joined the Saints since 2018 and found average results as well as minimum standards that they all met.
