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By Ross Jackson - LouisianaSports.net

Salary cap maneuvering isn’t out of the ordinary for the New Orleans Saints. What is, though, is stockpiling available spending money.

The Saints are currently flush with cash. Not a phrase anyone gets to say all that often. However, general manager Mickey Loomis has publicly aimed to rein in the salary cap overages since they became more challenging following the NFL’s COVID-year cap reduction.

“We’re in that mode right now,” Loomis said soon after 2024’s season came to an end. “We’ve got to recover from some of the things that happened with COVID and the contracts that we did in the past…And look, I think we’re probably going to be in that mode for another year or so.”

Prior to the Friday afternoon signing of wide receiver Brandin Cooks, the Saints were holding on to more than $30 million of available funds. While Cooks’s contract averages $6.5 million per year, it’s likely that his first-year cap hit will come in lower than that.

So, with just less than $30 million in salary cap space, what is New Orleans planning?...

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