Underhill thinks Carr will be Saints starter [mod edit: Moore-Carr meeting went well; Saints plan is to keep Carr in 2025 & figure out contract]
His 2026 numbers would then look like this if we kept him.
If we cut him in 2026 because we won't want to pay him $50m in salary and a $69,207,000 cap hit for the 20th best QB in the NFL, we would have to take his prorated bonus from 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029 and add them up. Those are $19,207,000 in 2026, $19,207,000 in 2027, $13,507,000 in 2028 and 7,749,000 in 2029. That adds up to $59,670,000 in dead money. I'll show all of the tabs below.
It does, and that money is guaranteed regardless. When you restructure $30m in salary and $10m in bonus, you have to leave a league minimum salary of $1,255,000 AND the 2025 portion of the prorated bonus of the restructure has to be added on the the existing prorated bonus for 2025 as well. That leaves his 2025 numbers looking like this.
His 2026 numbers would then look like this if we kept him.
If we cut him in 2026 because we won't want to pay him $50m in salary and a $69,207,000 cap hit for the 20th best QB in the NFL, we would have to take his prorated bonus from 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029 and add them up. Those are $19,207,000 in 2026, $19,207,000 in 2027, $13,507,000 in 2028 and 7,749,000 in 2029. That adds up to $59,670,000 in dead money. I'll show all of the tabs below.