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Saints required to spend an additional $50 million on player contracts this year
Posted on 2/22/26 at 8:44 pm
Posted on 2/22/26 at 8:44 pm
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The NFLPA told members (agents) that they expect the salary cap to be $303.5 million this league year, though it could reach as high as $305 million. Several teams, including the New York Jets, New Orleans Saints, Seattle Seahawks, Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Rams and Chargers, as well as the Tennessee Titans, must spend an additional $50 million on player contracts this year to meet their three-year requirement, according to the CBA.
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This means many of the free agents signed by these teams or contract extensions handed out to players already on the roster will be frontloaded with a lot of cash for the 2026 season.
Essentiallysports.com
Welp, guess Olave getting extended. On the plus side, if his contract is front loaded the Saints will have more cap space in future years.
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Posted on 2/22/26 at 8:55 pm to Handsome Pete
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must spend an additional $50 million on player contracts this year
Meh
Posted on 2/22/26 at 8:57 pm to Handsome Pete
Ummmm why again?
Posted on 2/22/26 at 9:41 pm to goatmilker
Terribly written story. The Saints are always butting up against the cap after starting the offseason way over the cap. So I'm guessing the spending may be about actual cash spending? Again, hard to tell with such a poorly written story.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 5:46 am to goatmilker
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Ummmm why again?
Here is what Google's AI tells me
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Team Salary Requirements: Clubs must spend an average of 90% of the salary cap on player cash compensation over specified three-year tranches
All that dead money coming back to bite us
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:49 am to mdomingue
It is over a 3 year period and we barely paid any real money last year. All that dead money represents money we paid previously.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:44 am to saints5021
This. It's because over the last 2 offseasons we didn't really go get big price FAs.
But this is literally one big signing away from being fulfilled. Give someone a $50 mil signing bonus on a 5 year deal and that's it. More likely it's met by giving multiple players smaller signing bonuses.
But this is literally one big signing away from being fulfilled. Give someone a $50 mil signing bonus on a 5 year deal and that's it. More likely it's met by giving multiple players smaller signing bonuses.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:52 am to bonethug0180
Now is when we want to be front loading contracts for core guys anyways
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:24 am to bonethug0180
So, Olave, Cam & DD extensions before the cap year, some moderate FA signings in the offseason and the team should have most, if not all, of that resolved.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:40 am to Weekend Warrior79
This is a good time to point out that even though Mickey was squaking about not believing in a rebuild, he has been actively rebuilding and cleaning our cap the last 2 years.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 11:58 am to Proximo
They won't be front loaded. What needs to be spent is just cash, and they will get there with bonuses.
There is very good reason pretty much no team front loads ANY contracts any more, because you can squeeze the players out of those big years by cutting them at the end or getting them to agree to pay cuts. That keeps them from ever getting their actual per year on the total contract that people freak out about.
There is very good reason pretty much no team front loads ANY contracts any more, because you can squeeze the players out of those big years by cutting them at the end or getting them to agree to pay cuts. That keeps them from ever getting their actual per year on the total contract that people freak out about.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 12:30 pm to bonethug0180
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There is very good reason pretty much no team front loads ANY contracts any more
They will definitely front load contracts during the rookie qb window so the big hits aren’t overlapping when Shough is due. There's a lot they can do to get creative
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 12:44 pm
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