During this weekend’s NFL draft, the Saints traded their third and fourth round picks to move back into the second round and select Ohio State safety Vonn Bell. Later, they traded their 2016 fifth round pick and 2017 fifth round pick to the Washington Redskins to move back into the fourth round to select University of Manitoba defensive tackle David Onyemata.
The Saints did not have a sixth round pick this year because in 2015 they traded it, coincidentally also to Washington, to move back into the fifth round last year and select Georgia cornerback Damian Swann.