Author: Tyler Eschette

The NFL Draft will be kicking off on April 27th in Kansas City, Missouri and the mock drafts are a hot commodity as we are in the offseason. The New Orleans Saints will hold the 29th overall selection in this year’s draft after gaining that pick from trading Sean Payton to Denver. New Orleans will have their options at that draft selection and be able to fill some of their needs on both sides of the ball. NFL.com’s Daniel Jeremiah has the Saints taking Boston College wide receiver Zay Flowers in his 2.0 mock draft. This is the second mock…

Pro Football Focus (PFF) released their Top 10 returning players at every position and LSU’s Harold Perkins is one of the top returning linebackers for the 2023 season. Perkins finds himself at No. 2 on the list after a dominant freshman campaign for the Tiger defense. He would live up to the hype coming out of high school being regarded as one of the top prospects in the Class of 2022. Hear from PFF on their reasoning for Perkins being one of the top returning linebackers for the upcoming college football season: “Perkins was a Top-10 recruit in the Class…

LSU’s running back room will be strong as John Emery Jr. announced that he was going to be coming back for another year in Baton Rouge. Along with Emery Jr, the frontrunners in the running back group will be Josh Williams, Noah Cain and Armoni Goodwin that broke onto the scene for LSU during the 2022 season. The Tigers will not only be able to bring experience at the position, but youth will be coming in as Brian Kelly was able to load up at the position. LSU brings in two highly-coveted prospects, Trey Holly and Kaleb Jackson. Here is…

LSU’s quarterback room heading into the 2023 season took a hit on its depth chart after Walker Howard decided to transfer to Ole Miss. With Howard leaving to one of LSU’s rival in the SEC West, the Tigers will now turn to Jayden Daniels and Garrett Nussmeier leading the way in the quarterback room. Daniels decided shortly after the end of the 2022 season that he was going to come back to Baton Rouge for one final ride and Nussmeier has shown his flashes when he saw the field. Along with Daniels and Nussmeier, Kelly was able to bring in…

Texas and Oklahoma are slated to join the SEC heading into the 2024 season after the two sides agreed to exit the Big 12 after the 2023-24 season. According to ESPN, Oklahoma and Texas have agreed in principle to pay the Big 12 a total of $100 million to join the SEC a year early. With this announcement coming a few weeks ago it will change the structure of the conference schedule going forward. It is expected that the SEC will move to a three-six schedule, meaning that each school will have three permanent opponents and then the remaining six…

Mock draft season is upon us after the NFL season wrapped up with the Kansas City Chiefs hoisting the Lombardi Trophy. The New Orleans Saints will have their options of what side of the ball to focus on with their first pick of the 2023 NFL Draft with the 29th overall selection. In Todd McShay’s 2.0 NFL Mock Draft, the Saints select edge rusher Keion White out of Georgia Tech. Here was McShay’s reasoning for New Orleans choosing to zone in on adding a key piece to their defensive line: “The Saints got back into round one with the Sean…

The blaring need for the New Orleans Saints heading into the offseason is the quarterback position. It has been a position that has been a question mark ever since Drew Brees retired after the 2020 season. With Jameis Winston as the only quarterback under contract, New Orleans will be expected to be in the market to find their quarterback of the future this offseason. There will be candidates for the Saints can target this offseason and here are some of the likely prospects: Derek Carr: New Orleans has already gotten ahead of multiple teams in the Derek Carr sweepstakes as…

SEC Media Days will kickoff on July 17, 2023 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. This year’s three-day event will mark the first time that SEC Media Days will be taking place in Nashville after last year the event was held in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference released the 2023 football media days schedule and Brian Kelly will get it kicked off on Thursday morning. Other notable coaches making their appearances during the 2023 Media Days is first-year head coaches Hugh Freeze at Auburn and Zach Arnett at Mississippi State will be making their debut on Tuesday. Back-to-back national…

Brian Kelly is coming off a successful first season with the LSU Tigers as they were able to defy all odds to become the SEC West Champions and reach the 10-win mark since the 2019 season. There will be a lot of optimism around Baton Rouge as we head into the new season in 2023 as LSU will be returning valuable production on both sides of the ball. According to Bill Connelly, three factors went into the rankings and that is returning production, recent recruiting and recent history.  The Tigers found themselves at the No. 7 spot of ESPN’s SP+…

The New Orleans Saints have areas that need to be addressed including at quarterback, wide receiver, safety and on the defensive line. There are multiple routes that the Saints can take with the 29th overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft. The latest mock draft from CBS Sports has New Orleans adding to their running back depth chart in selecting Alabama running back Jahmyr Gibbs, who is getting Alvin Kamara comparisons by many. Jahmyr Gibbs Draws Alvin Kamara Comparison: The running back group for the Saints could be in question mark heading into the new season as Kamara and Mark…