By PFW staff
July 29, 2008

The Saints have agreed to terms on a five-year contract with the seventh-overall pick in this year's draft, DT Sedrick Ellis, GM Mickey Loomis announced late Tuesday. The USC product will arrive at camp Wednesday.

Ellis' deal is worth up to $49 million with $19.5 million guaranteed, according to PFW correspondent Mike Triplett, a beat writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Due to some incentives that will be difficult to reach, the report states the contract will likely end up being worth closer to $32 million, rather than $49 million.

In Pro Football Weekly's 2008 Draft Preview book, PFW draft analyst Nolan Nawrocki wrote that Ellis “possesses great functional strength and owns the line of scrimmage. A rock at the point of attack. Flashes the ability to toss blockers aside. Plays with natural leverage and can collapse the pocket.”