Bleacher Report’s Brent Sobleski has two receivers who are perfect fits in New Orleans: Ole Miss star Tre Harris and Utah State standout Jalen Royals.
The lack of depth in the New Orleans Saints wide receiver room exposed itself in 2024. The room was clearly carried by Chris Olave and Rashid Shaheed coming into the season. Both of those players have dealt with injuries that ended their season or cost them a large amount of time.
Marquez Valdes-Scantling has been a good midseason addition and should be considered for next year’s roster, but it wouldn’t be surprising to see the Saints invest draft capital into the position.
It’s hard to have a truly valuable conversation about prospects’ fit within the team. The Saints are a schematic unknown, so it’s best to focus on skillset.
Harris comes in with a good physical prototype. He’s 6’3 210 pounds. Sobleski sees him as a player who would thrive in an offense that gets the ball in his hands quickly.
Shaheed possesses this ability, though it hasn’t been used frequently. Adding Harris could allow for the bigger receiver to take some of those catch and run opportunities early on and Shaheed continues to stretch the field.
Royals provides a player similar to Olave in size and traits. The Utah State product comes in at six feet even and slightly over 200 pounds. Sobleski describes him as “a combination of being a precise route-runner, while also serving as a big-play threat.”
The Saints have that in Olave already. If the Saints add a receiver, he should bring a different dynamic to the receiving corps.