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re: Who is in favor of paying Olave as a #1 WR?
Posted on 4/14/26 at 11:14 pm to LSUPilot07
Posted on 4/14/26 at 11:14 pm to LSUPilot07
If you take Olave's stats in games Shough started and extrapolate them out to a 17 game season, he'd have had 102 catches, 1,403 yards, and 13 TDs at 14 yards per catch. That would put him between Chase and Amon-Ra St. Brown for 5th among WRs in 2025.
This post was edited on 4/14/26 at 11:17 pm
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Posted on 4/15/26 at 7:34 am to Shiftyplus1
No bro he’s Lance Moore
Posted on 4/15/26 at 7:48 am to LSUPilot07
Olave has an All Pro nod. They don't just hand those out. He is going to get paid between 33 - 36 million by the Saints. We have a QB on a rookie contract. What the fans think he should be paid is irrelevant. The quicker you understand this, the easier your life will be.
Posted on 4/15/26 at 7:51 am to saints5021
I thought he had a really good season coming off the concussions. I'd like to see what he does this year with a little better supporting cast before paying him #1 money.
Posted on 4/15/26 at 8:27 am to LSUPilot07
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I would give Olave $25 million for 4 years, no more
It’s so baffling to me how so many of you haven’t seem to have evolved your thinking with the upping of the cap. You see a player like Olave and that looks to you like a 4-year/$100 million WR. And you’d have been right. 5-10 years ago.
In a few years #3 WRs will be getting $25/per. 2 years from now you will be thanking your lucky stars if we’ve signed him—now—for 4-years/$120 million. Call him a top 15 #1, a back 15 #1, a high end # 2–whatever, $30 million/per might not even be a top 25 paid WR in the league soon.
And it’s always cheaper to re-sign a guy already in the building than to coerce a free agent into coming. With our cap situation where it is, with a 2nd-year, very promising QB, and a WR room that’s both short on top end talent and depth, not signing Olave would be dumb as all frick. Move your head into ‘26, ‘27, ‘28–quit seeing everything from the lens of 2010.
This post was edited on 4/15/26 at 8:28 am
Posted on 4/15/26 at 8:32 am to ShrevetownTiger
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I'd like to see what he does this year with a little better supporting cast before paying him #1 money.
Sounds good. Doesn’t work. You wait another year to pay him, and his price probably goes up at least $5 million/year. Or more likely he throws the deuces and hits free agency.
Then we have sign a free agent for similar or more money who has never worked with our QB and we’ve wasted 2 years of them building chemistry.
The whole point of starting a rookie QB is so you can make these kind of signings when he’s on his rookie deal.
Posted on 4/15/26 at 8:36 am to Shiftyplus1
I misunderstood your post. My bad. 
This post was edited on 4/15/26 at 8:48 am
Posted on 4/15/26 at 9:06 am to LSUPilot07
Will he reset the market? No, absolutely not. Should we pay him as our WR1? Yes, we absolutely should, and soon.
Why are we still having this conversation? Dude just got an All-pro nod in a season where fricking Spencer Rattler was his QB for the first half. The cap is consistently going up as is the WR market. It is what it is.
Alec Pierce just signed for 4/$114 and there are dudes in here saying you wouldn't give him more than 4/$100. Thank god none of you are actually in our front office.
Why are we still having this conversation? Dude just got an All-pro nod in a season where fricking Spencer Rattler was his QB for the first half. The cap is consistently going up as is the WR market. It is what it is.
Alec Pierce just signed for 4/$114 and there are dudes in here saying you wouldn't give him more than 4/$100. Thank god none of you are actually in our front office.
Posted on 4/15/26 at 9:15 am to LSUPilot07
Not a good move. His body is already starting to fall apart. Chalk up another one damaged to reverend Carr .
Posted on 4/15/26 at 9:21 am to LSUPilot07
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The last injury prone Ohio State WR we gave a big deal to didn’t exactly work out for us.
Did have the greatest single season for a WR in Saints history, and set league records the year after he signed that deal. He did not become injury prone until he was rolled up on in wk1 the following year when the game was basically decided (up 2 scores with just over 2 minutes left)
Posted on 4/15/26 at 9:25 am to Delusional
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He is a high end #2
Based on Tee Higgins contract last season, a high end #2 qualifies for at least $29M. Especially one that made 2nd team All-Pro
Posted on 4/15/26 at 10:12 am to Weekend Warrior79
I think with his injury history, you structure it as a top 10 WR deal but he has to be on the field and productive.
Brandon Aiyuk
4/120 that includes incentives to get there. At that point, Tyler will be up as well and we will have to let him loose anyway.
i also have no problem trading him. JMO
Brandon Aiyuk
4/120 that includes incentives to get there. At that point, Tyler will be up as well and we will have to let him loose anyway.
i also have no problem trading him. JMO
Posted on 4/15/26 at 12:02 pm to FMtTXtiger
Your top 11 deals per Spotrac:
JSN: 4 years $168.8M, $42.2M per (signed 2026)
Chase: 4 years $161M, $40.25M per (signed 2025)
JJ: 4 years $140M, $35M per (signed 2024)
CeeDee: 4 years $136M, $34M per (signed 2024)
DK: 4 years $132M, $33M per (signed 2025)
Garrett Wilson: 4 years $130M, $32.5M per (signed 2025)
McLaurin: 3 years $97M, $32.33M per (signed 2025) - OTC has it at 3yr, $87M
AJ Brown: 3 years $96M, $32M per (signed 2024)
Amon-Ra: 4 years $120.01M, $30.M per (signed 2024)
Aiyuk: 4 years $120M, $30.M per (signed 2024)
Higgins: 4 years $115M, $28.75M per (signed 2025)
Crazy that 7 of the top 10 are in the NFC.
If you want him top10, Aiyuk would be the minimum at $30M/yr. But would you put up too much of a fight if his team insists on getting higher than Garrett (drafted 1 slot in front of Olave), which could put him top 5, for another $3M a year
JSN: 4 years $168.8M, $42.2M per (signed 2026)
Chase: 4 years $161M, $40.25M per (signed 2025)
JJ: 4 years $140M, $35M per (signed 2024)
CeeDee: 4 years $136M, $34M per (signed 2024)
DK: 4 years $132M, $33M per (signed 2025)
Garrett Wilson: 4 years $130M, $32.5M per (signed 2025)
McLaurin: 3 years $97M, $32.33M per (signed 2025) - OTC has it at 3yr, $87M
AJ Brown: 3 years $96M, $32M per (signed 2024)
Amon-Ra: 4 years $120.01M, $30.M per (signed 2024)
Aiyuk: 4 years $120M, $30.M per (signed 2024)
Higgins: 4 years $115M, $28.75M per (signed 2025)
Crazy that 7 of the top 10 are in the NFC.
If you want him top10, Aiyuk would be the minimum at $30M/yr. But would you put up too much of a fight if his team insists on getting higher than Garrett (drafted 1 slot in front of Olave), which could put him top 5, for another $3M a year
Posted on 4/15/26 at 3:25 pm to Weekend Warrior79
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Based on Tee Higgins contract last season, a high end #2 qualifies for at least $29M.
Sounds about right
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