Saints draft 2nd defensive player, select Utah’s Marcus Williams
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The New Orleans Saints made Utah safety Marcus Williams the 10th pick in the second round of the 2017 NFL Draft Friday. Williams led all FBS safeties with a run-stop percentage of 11.8 percent in 2016. He missed just one tackle against the run in 2016, and none when lined up within eight yards of the line of scrimmage at the snap. He allowed just 0.09 yards per coverage snap, the lowest among all safeties in FBS. Saints current starting safeties Vonn Bell (77.5) and Kenny Vaccaro (79.9) both graded among the top 50 safeties in football in 2016.