Rashid Shaheed will undergo knee surgery to determine multiple weeks or rest of the season; Olave Out, Hill Doubtful for TNF game

Artifactual said
Saints should place Shaheed on IR today instead of waiting for further evaluation.

It would be one less game that he'd be required to miss. If he has to miss more time then there's no difference. Highly unlikely he will return in less than 4 weeks.

Saints can use the roster spot to sign either WR St. Brown or G Reed to the active 53 and then elevate another 2 players to the gameday roster from the practice squad.

It would then open a spot on the PS for the Saints to bring in another player that would have over a week to get up to speed with the team.

I don’t understand why the Saints didn't place Carr on IR when his expected time to miss was projected to be 3 to 4 weeks.

They could have used that roster spot to sign a player off of another teams PS.

Because the current staff lacks the leadership to make any type of move.

I might be wrong because I know they were discussing changing the setup and I didn’t follow it too closely but I think there is or was a limit to how many guys u can IR with the designation to return. I know they were trying to remove the limit and anyone could go IR for four weeks and come back.