Draggable in Scroll View Returning to proper place on Drop

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Hey all, What I am attempting to do is I have a scroll rect of draggable elements set up of “sticker critters”. When I drag them out I set to the root transform so they arn’t masked anymore to drag into a box where they can be dropped. I’m not worried about removing them from the roster. However because I’m using a grid layout component whenever I drop the draggable it goes to the bottom of the hierarchy in the inspector. If i want it to go back to the spot it can from what would be my best action moving forward? I was thinking adding a place holder when i pick up the draggle but how do i get the child index of the draggable? Thanks in advanced, will provide any other info.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

public class DraggableRosterUICritter : MonoBehaviour, IPointerDownHandler, IBeginDragHandler, IEndDragHandler, IDragHandler
{
    public StickerCritterObject stickerCritter;
    [SerializeField] private RosterManager rosterManager;
    [SerializeField] private GameObject UIEmptySlotPrefab;
    [SerializeField] private GameObject UIEmptySlotTemp;
    [SerializeField] private Transform originalParent;
    [SerializeField] private Vector3 startpos;
    private Canvas canvas;
    private RectTransform rectTransform;
    private CanvasGroup canvasGroup;

    private void Awake()
    {
        rosterManager = FindObjectOfType<RosterManager>();
        originalParent = transform.parent;
        canvas = transform.root.GetComponent<Canvas>();
        rectTransform = GetComponent<RectTransform>();
        canvasGroup = GetComponent<CanvasGroup>();
    }

    public void OnBeginDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        Debug.Log("OnBeginDrag");
        canvasGroup.alpha = .6f;
        canvasGroup.blocksRaycasts = false;
    }

    public void OnDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        Debug.Log("OnDrag");
        rectTransform.anchoredPosition += eventData.delta / canvas.scaleFactor;
    }

    public void OnEndDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        Debug.Log("OnEndDrag");
        canvasGroup.alpha = 1f;
        canvasGroup.blocksRaycasts = true;

        transform.SetParent(originalParent);
        rectTransform.anchoredPosition = startpos;
    }

    public void OnPointerDown(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        Debug.Log("OnPointerDown");
        startpos = rectTransform.anchoredPosition;
        transform.SetParent(transform.root);
    }
}
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transform.GetSiblingIndex() & transform.SetSiblingIndex(); can help here;