Patrick Robinson retiring

But even then it's $16 million now and $16 million next year.

The Saints simply don't have the cap space to trade MT13. I hope that a 1500 yard, 100 catch, 10 TD season when MT13 comes back will remind people how dominant a receiver he actually is. Maybe then they will forget the annoyance of being unavailable at the beginning of this season.

SFIAH
Nope.

If he were to be traded now his 2021 cap hit would go from 10.1M to 8.9M This tears signing bonus charge) for a savings of 1.2M.

Next year his signing Bonus charge goes to 22.7M but that is 2M less than his combined salary, roster bonus, and 1 years worth of signing bonus.