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

Elvis said
Come on guys, the math really isn't that hard. Under your premise of get him now, cut him before next year. He makes ~$1 million a week. Including this week there are 12 weeks left, so ~$12 million plus his per game roster bonuses. The Saints have roughly $3 million left in cap space for 2024. They need to keep a big part of that to work the bottom of the roster week to week. Nearly all of Adams contract would need to be converted to a signing bonus. If the trade happened today and they were forced to cut him before the beginning of the next season the Saints would have to take on that $12 million as dead cap. That would move the cap they need to shed to $93 million before the beginning of the league year, before dealing with the likely retirements of Cam Jordan and Ryan Ramczyk which will add even more.

For a guy who turns 32 in December, and is either disgruntled or injured. To a team that has a real possibility of being 2-5 by next Friday.

I'm not arguing that we should sign him for all of that. They can wait until the trade deadline and make the Raiders sweat. And Loomis can do what he knows how to do. I don't know what his plan would be, but it certainly won't involve Adams' remaining current contract. It would be a simple transaction, but teams have made trades like that work before.

And I'm also on record saying that I think the trade probably won't happen at this point. The interested teams all have either cap issues or not ideal situations, so as much as Adams might want out, there aren't a lot of options for him. He does have leverage in that he can just sit on the bench and get paid millions for the rest of the season until the Raiders cut him.