Kamara going on Terron Armstead's show live at 6 tonight

Loomis probably hoping this dude announces his retirement today. You can tell from his responses/body language when asked about AK.

If he says he is not and has not been considering retiring this year I will eat all of my words.

He isn't one to be quiet on things when he actually decides to speak, so whatever it is I think will be the raw stuff.

I was really hoping we'd trade him during the draft but then I saw that his dead cap hit would've been like 20M. If we trade or cut him after June 1st, his dead cap hit is less than 10M.

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Cutting him saves next to nothing, even after June 1st, so that isn't happening.

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You’re ignoring the $10.155 million he’s due during the season as non-guaranteed money

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Basically all but $1.27 mil was guaranteed, which means we do NOT save $10 mil like what was claimed, since nearly the entire amount of his contract was guaranteed.

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Wrong

Like I said, a lot of bad and false reporting. You can cite what you want but that's his actual contract details from otc with sources.

What that specific site you quoted is not accounting for is the fact that most of his money was guaranteed before conversion, and like I said the rule specifically states that guaranteed money stays guaranteed. Only $1.27 mil of his total contract was not guaranteed.

You are missing that his base salary was nearly fully guaranteed before the conversion.

Like I said, quoted right there, the only portion of his 2025 and 2026 contract that was NOT guaranteed was $1.27 mil.

And the Saints reporters overlooked what portion of his base was already guaranteed before conversion, which is why we had the false reporting to begin with. They just saw the rule said converted money is not guaranteed and ran with it, not reading the whole rule.

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The New Orleans Saints used the "50% Rule"—sometimes known as the "Deion Rule"—from the CBA to restructure Alvin Kamara's contract in March 2026, creating $8.1 million in cap space. This rare maneuver allowed them to convert $10.155 million of his 2026 base salary into a signing bonus by utilizing a steep drop in his 2027 salary, enabling them to prorate the cap hit without adding new guaranteed money.

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This is the overlooked part. It didn't add new guaranteed money, which is why $1.27 mil is still not guaranteed, but all of the old guarantees, that I showed you above, still remained.

Literally the false reporting that I was talking about. It doesn't take GUARANTEED money and make it unguaranteed. It just prevents NEW guarantees.

His last contract was all but $1.27 mil guaranteed.

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Alvin Kamara signed a two year, $23.5 million contract extension with the Saints on October 24, 2024. $22.23 million is guaranteed of which $12 million is newly guaranteed money. Kamara received a $15.5 million signing bonus and his 2025 salary is fully guaranteed.

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Loomis has spent the entire offseason talking about Kamara like he's a free agent, when he's not.

Kamara's doing a clever job of being business as usual, talking about getting back in town, meeting the rookies, etc.

He's clearly not considering retirement and probably won't accept a pay cut, so he's going to force Loomis to decide whether or not he wants to get rid of a Saints legend who's just showing up to work.

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Like I said, a lot of bad and false reporting. You can cite what you want but that's his actual contract details from otc with sources.

What that specific site you quoted is not accounting for is the fact that most of his money was guaranteed before conversion, and like I said the rule specifically states that guaranteed money stays guaranteed. Only $1.27 mil of his total contract was not guaranteed.

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The remainder of his contract did not disappear, just is not guaranteed. The "conversion" the Saints made was a cap conversion and did not change the terms of his contract. He is guaranteed $3 million but the remainder he was due is simply nonguaranteed that he will earn if he plays.