The Ohio State pipeline to New Orleans continued Friday night when the New Orleans Saints used their second round pick to select Buckeyes linebacker Pete Werner. Werner is the fourth player since 2016 the Saints have selected out of Ohio State. The last four picks the Saints have made out of Ohio State have turned out well: Marshon Lattimore, Michael Thomas, Vonn Bell and Malcolm Jenkins. What are the Saints getting in Werner? An athletic linebacker who has played a ton of high-level college football and could potentially fill the role held by Kwon Alexander last season. Why he fits Werner fits the Saints prototype at linebacker, both in terms of size (6-foot-2, 238 pounds) and athleticism — he ran a 4.59 second 40-yard dash and turned in a 39.5-inch vertical leap at Ohio State’s pro day. Using the Relative Athletic Score metric, which is a 0-10 score that uses…
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