re: Saints officially have the pick 14th in the NFL Draft

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They’d still tank a serious dead cap hit b

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That's why we can't do it. We are still like 50M over the 2024 cap and that would add 20-30M to it.

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there’s some perhaps irreversible damage to the Lattimore/Saints relationship that could end in a trade.

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That's why we used the option bonus. We are essentially designating him as a June-1 trade (which you can't legally do like cuts, but the option effectively accomplishes the same cap relief...just that we can't trade him until then)