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METAIRIE Gardner Minshew II Jersey , La. (AP) — The New Orleans Saints were still waiting to make their first pick of the NFL draft when .The Saints are slated to pick late in the second round at 62nd overall on Friday night and will try to acquire a player capable of contributing next season to a team widely expected to be a playoff contender.That’s the only pick New Orleans currently has in the first four rounds because of a series of 2018 trades designed to help the club contend for another title while record-setting quarterback Drew Brees, who turned 40 last January, is still playing.The Saints traded away this year’s first rounder during the 2018 first round in order to move up and select defensive end Marcus Davenport.The Saints gave up their 2019 third-round pick in a trade for reserve quarterback Teddy Bridgewater late in the 2018 preseason. And in the middle of last season, they exchanged this year’s fourth-round pick for former New York Giants cornerback Eli Apple.That left general manager Mickey Loomis and coach Sean Payton limited assets with which to propose a trade back into this year’s opening round. But with five picks clustered in the final three rounds, they might be able to trade up on the second or third days of the draft.An area of immediate concern is along the interior defensive line. Sheldon Rankins, a 2016 first rounder, is recovering from an Achilles tendon tear, David Onyemata is facing a possible suspension of up to four games for a misdemeanor marijuana citation and Tyeler Davison left in free agency.If all goes well, Rankins and Onyemata will both be back and in form by the second month of the season Christian Wilkins Jersey , but that’s no easy forecast. Recovery from an Achilles tendon injury can be tricky. Davison’s decision, which came less than two weeks before the draft, might be the bigger blow. He was a solid role player who started 43 games in the past three seasons.The Saints nearly made the Super Bowl last season, falling to the Los Angeles Rams in overtime of an NFC title game tainted by late-game officiating mistakes that top NFL officials acknowledged after the game.For the most part, New Orleans has been able to keep most of its 2018 team together and moved quickly in free agency to add projected replacements for the few veterans who left.New Orleans signed running backs Latavius Murray and Malcom Brown, as well as defensive end Mario Edwards, following the departures of running back Mark Ingram and defensive end Alex Okafor. And when center Max Unger retired, the Saints signed center Nick Easton. Quarterback controversy. They are the two words that haunt National Football League franchises, head coaches and general managers. The old adage as it pertains to pro football is that a team that has two quarterbacks actually has none. A pro-style offense needs a true leader inside of the huddle Michael Deiter Jersey , behind the center and in the pocket. While it is important for a NFL team, particularly one that wants to contend for a Super Bowl championship, to have a solid backup, it needs to be clear to everybody in the locker room and among the fan base of the club that the starter is, so long as he is healthy, the starting QB.What happens, though, when a head coach is forced to pick one of two bad players to be his starting quarterback? You could ask fans of the Cleveland Browns about this. The truth of the matter is that one could dedicate an entire piece to the long list of failed quarterbacks and useless QB controversies that the Browns have been responsible for since the team returned to the NFL in 1999. One would think that a NFL team that is worth over $1 billion could, in 16 years Daniel Jones Jersey , fall into a franchise QB at least once. The Browns continue to show that is not the case.The Browns, as poor as they have been, are not the only team that has put fans through useless and mind-boggling quarterback controversies. Even teams that have won multiple championships, a storied franchise such as the Dallas Cowboys, have been forced into an awful quarterback controversy. Fellow NFC East team the Washington Redskins have seemingly been involved in a QB controversy for years, and a new controversy will likely be sparked at some point in 2016. Is it possible that the Redskins have a franchise QB on their roster as of November 2015? No, they probably don't.