Either that or we're about to bring someone else in.
I mean, you can call him a 5th string back but if you pretend the season started today this is what the depth chart would look like.
#1- 33 year old Mark Ingram
#2- Competition between everyone else.
Everyone else includes a 25 year old RB with starting experience and a 4.33 career YPC average. An undrafted free agent, a Rb that is really a special teams player, a 24 year old RB with 54 career carries and a 2.6 ypc average.
That also means we would keep every one of them because that leaves us with 4 active Rb's on the roster. BTW, that 25 year old RB with starting experience and a career 4.33 ypc average we just cut.
So either he asked for his release or the Saints are making room for another RB.