Saints cut 3 rookie draft picks in difficult roster cuts

There’s no way to sugar-coat the release of drafted rookies four months into their career. It’s a product of misevaluation.

That’s where the New Orleans Saints are after cutting three rookies just months after drafting them. The players let go include:

4th round: OL Rick Leonard

5th round: DB Natrell Jamerson

6th round: DB Kamrin Moore

Sure, three undrafted rookies made the team. That’s bad. If those players were good enough to make the team then the Saints should have scouted them well enough to draft them instead of players who were not.

Are the losses of three late-round draft picks going to sink the Saints’ Super Bowl aspirations? Probably not. The hit rate on selections that late in the…