With the start of free agency less than a week away, the New Orleans Saints kept their focus on current assets, extending the low tender of $1.4 million to restricted free agent Safety Rafael Bush on Thursday. The Saints can match any offer Bush were to receive on the market but would not receive any […]
Bullish Saints Confident On Graham Situation
Unable to negotiate a long-term extension with their star Tight End, the New Orleans Saints chose to use the franchise tag on Jimmy Graham last week. The stage has now been set for a long, drawn out negotiating battle with Graham and his agent Jimmy Sexton in the coming months. With little cap space to […]
NFL’s New Cap Number Will Help Saints
Last week, the NFLPA announced that the league’s 2014 salary cap number will be $133 million. That is several million more than most estimates had the new number reaching, and over $9 million more than the 2013 salary cap. Having only recently chopped and changed their way under the cap, the New Orleans Saints are […]
Free Agent Louis Delmas Visits The Saints
The NFL’s 2014 free agency extravaganza has effectively descended upon New Orleans less than a week before Mardi Gras. On Thursday, the Saints hosted former Detroit Lions Free Safety Louis Delmas on a visit as the team looks to bring in a new face to its secondary. Poised to lose unrestricted free agent Malcolm Jenkins […]
Saints Use Franchise Tag On Jimmy Graham
Far apart in negotiations over a proposed long-term contract offer, the New Orleans Saints elected to use the Franchise Tag on Tight End Jimmy Graham Friday afternoon. The move does not come as a complete surprise as the Saints were never going to let Graham hit the open market. However, the team now faces a […]