Kiko was an ACL. I think I remember hearing that he could miss part of next season. He has a large cap hit and he's not a crucial piece of our defense, so I'm thinking released with maybe an injury settlement. Saints could save $7,850,000 by letting him go with only $850k in dead money.
Davenport is a Linsfrac foot injury. 8 months is on the short side how long he'll be out. That would have him back or nearly back by the start of the season. 10 months on the long side has him missing about half the season, similar to Sheldon Rankins this past season. Davenport will be going into the 3rd year on his rookie deal, so he's still dirt cheap. Only sad that we're losing so much of his cheap years with him being out with injury.
Rankins has an ankle injury. The reports on this have been murky at best, but unless there's some seriousness that I haven't heard about, I'd think he could be back by OTA's. That's just speculation. If there's something broken in that ankle or high grade tendon damage, then I guess it could be training camp or start of the season for him. He has a very large cap hit from the 5th year option the saints reported to pick up on him. I believe they can back out of that if they chose to do so without any dead money. Cutting him would create 7,690,000 in cap space.
Get well soon guys.