New Orleans Saints 2018 Free Agents

Kelemete may be the most important outside of Drew. I’m just wondering how much he’ll get on the open market.

Drew Brees. QB. NO. $24,250,000. UFA - hopefully he will sign for 2 yr / 40 million
Kenny Vaccaro SS. NO. $2,356,178. UFA - let him walk
Alex Okafor DE NO $2,000,000 UFA - resign to 1 yr if he passes physical
Senio Kelemete G NO $1,350,000 UFA - bring back for depth
John Kuhn FB NO $1,000,000 UFA - let him walk
Tony McDaniel DT NO $1,000,000 UFA - let him walk
Chase Daniel QB NO $900,000 UFA - resign for same
Clay Harbor TE NO $900,000 UFA - let him walk
Sterling Moore CB NO $900,000 UFA - resign for depth
John Phillips TE NO - UFA -
Rafael Bush FS NO $855,000 UFA - resign but draft another safety late
Josh LeRibeus C NO $775,000 UFA - resign
Zach Line FB NO $775,000 UFA - resign
Gerald Hodges OLB NO $775,000 UFA - let him walk
Michael Mauti OLB NO $775,000 UFA - resign
John Hughes DE NO $775,000 UFA - let him walk
George Johnson DE NO $775,000 UFA - resign
Jonathan Freeny OLB NO $775,000 UFA - resign
Kasim Edebali OLB NO $690,000 UFA - let him walk
Audie Cole ILB NO - UFA who??

Hopefully Strief will stay to add depth and take a paycut

Anzalone, Breaux, Klein hopefully come back healthy.

Go find a dependable TE - C Brate, J Graham, T Eifert (if healthy)

Pass rush DE - Ziggy Ansah

Add Wr2 - Jarvis, Jordan Matthews, T Pryor

I want George Johnson and Jonathan Freeney back

Yeah he battled some injuries but i think the main reason is cause teams started to game plan mainly against him when Suh left. If you can combine hime with Cam Jordan then I think he could return to 10+ sacks a year

20 mil in cap space

For our own team in free agency:
1. sign Brees. its going to likely be a 2-3 year 20-30 mil per contract.
2. cut/restructure Unger and Fleener, neither are worth 8 mil.
3. solve the Nick Fairley contract
4. sign Okafor (a must sign.. with injury we should get him for 3 year 13 mil or so)
5. try to sign Vaccaro but don't break the bank here
6. Try to sign Kelemente, but he should get starter $$ from someone Imo
7. re-sign Rafaela Bush, Mauti, George Johnson,
8. We could extend Morestead to lessen his cap hit
9. We could also seek to extend Ingram as he will be entering his last year
10. let Snead walk

Other free agency:
We won't have much $$ but if somehow they get the Fairley $ back and let Vaccaro walk... It would be nice to get Drew a receiving option that can beat man coverage. Other than that look for solid cheap depth on defense.

Draft
1st round pick #27: I truly think this will be a best player available situation. We could make a move for a QB. TE or WR could be something we look at, or they really like a DE or LB. I doubt they would take a DB, DT or OL here.

3rd round pick This could be a place to try to find a safety to replace Vaccaro or BPA
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All best player available, would like to get a OL to replace Kelemente if we lose him. Another pass rusher, and then take high risk players who have a shot to be impact players. With a pretty stacked and young roster we don't have many slots available to make the roster so I think its prudent to go for home run or bust type guys in the mid to late rounds.

Disagree about Unger. Fleener, yes, he’ll be gone.

Most NFL teams undergo significant personnel changes from year to year.

I will not expect the Saints to be any different.

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Disagree about Unger. Fleener, yes, he’ll be gone.

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He’s been pretty good but struggled as well... and his pff is pretty terrible