There has been a lot of chatter about what the New Orleans Saints are going to do this offseason.
Most of the speculation has had to do with players leaving the team. While this is the case, we already have gotten some clarity at least on the team's plans. The Saints made it known that they are planning on keeping Derek Carr for the 2025 season. There are cap issues that need to be handled, but it doesn't sound like the Saints are looking to rebuild.
Another guy who has been speculated about his fan-favorite do-it-all "tight end" Taysom Hill. He's listed as a tight end but he really does a bit of everything for the Saints and has spent his entire eight-year NFL career in town.
Hill has a cap hit over $18 million in 2025 in the final year of his four-year, $40 million deal so there's been chatter about the Saints moving on from him. While this is the case, Athlon Sports'.
NFL makes notable announcement for the New Orleans Saints' salary cap situation this offseason
The New Orleans Saints have plenty of intriguing work to do this offseason. The salary cap will always be a discussion when it comes to their franchise nowadays.
The entire league got a new, official reason to smile on Thursday, too. It's a money move for the NFL.
NFL announces salary cap increase
The NFL has set the salary cap at $279.2 million per team for the 2025 season. That's a $23.8 million increase from last year's number.
The escalation of the cap represents more than $100 million than what it sat at in 2018 ($177 million) and nearly $200 million more than it was in 2005 ($85.5 million). Only a brief COVID-induced downtick in 2021 has been able to slow the NFL machine. -- NFL.com
For the Saints, this is great news. They, of course, have quite a climb to get back to cap compliancy, and the entire league knows it.
According to OverTheCap, the Saints are just over $47M over the cap as of now. Restructures, extensions, and cuts can all play a role in getting them in a much better spot by the time free agency begins.
That being said, any sort of increase was going to help New Orleans. Making a jump of over twenty million is a sizable offseason win for their front office and Kellen Moore.
