re: The Athletic Saints 7 round mock draft

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punter can be a pretty big weapon and I don't think Taylor gets to the fifth round

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Outside of the outliers, isn't the 5th when punters and kickers typically start to go (those good enough to be drafted).

Regarding just how big of a weapon a punter can be. Saints punted 75 times last year, 4.4 times a year.
The gap from the best punter (53.1 yards per punt) to Hedley (43.0) was a 1st down.
The gap for net yards per punt (45.3 net yards per punt) to Hedley (39.7) is 5.6 yards

Question is how much value does a team put into ~25 yards per game? While we all want to see a change/challenge, I honestly think they do not draft one and try to bring someone in after the draft.

Hedley did have respectable TB percentages and was 10th in the league (5.3% of punts results in TB), and inside the 20 percentages and was 9th in the league (41.3% inside the 20)