Chase Young re-signed to a 3-year, $51 million deal
ESPN could really kick rocks and eat a dirt with their Saints grades. They’re meaningless towards the Saints’ personnel outlook and what’s best for the team according to how the FO operates. ESPN hates to see the Saints spend cap at this point because they don’t understand what the Saints are trying to do to clean up the cap. Every offseason transaction grade they’ll give the Saints going forward this offseason will reflect that mindset so we might as well brace ourselves to see C, D, & F grades which doesn’t mean anything.
Meanwhile the Saints needed to secure (retain) some form of high ceiling young talent/potential at Edge before the draft while also helping their cap.
This re-signing/extension helped the Saints’ cap out tremendously by creating cap space from reducing 9m dead money down to 2.72m new cap hit on a 26 year old talent.