Saints at the top of Davante Adams’ wish list [Raiders trade Adams to Jets for conditional 3rd ; Jets paying Adams’ entire remaining salary]

Merl said

The salary for 2025 and 2026 were put into that contract so that the agent can use to to gain new clients by pointing out to them the deal he got Adams. Adams, the agent, and most everyone knew from day 1 that the Raiders were never going to pay those salaries. Kamara's contract has a balloon for next year that was put in for the same reason.

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I understand that, but they are going to want something in return in order to rip that contract up. What can the Saints realistically offer unless we're writing up a 5+ year contract with 3+ void years in it and a ton of guaranteed money in the form of a signing bonus. For a 31 year old receiver during one of the worst time for injuries the team has faced in years.

The Raiders are also going to want something in return. The $ value of a mid 2nd round pick is less that $6 million. The Raiders are asking for that AND to not take on any of his salary, as they are already taking the remainder of his signing bonus on as dead money, which is more than $23 million hit from 24-26.

What NFL team or player or agents are going to make it so easy for the Saints to get all of the benefits and none of the losses? It doesn't make any logic business sense for the Saints to get him unless they do something drastically stupid to do so. So many other teams have room to do it.