Saints still have $37 Million in 2026 Cap Space next year

For sure the Saints will have more cap flexibility next year.

My guess is that if they do release Carr it will be a post June 1 cut. His dead cap hit for 2026 will only be $19m and we can carry the rest of the dead money into 27 when we have even more cap space.

Hill, Jordan, Mathieu, Davis, Shepard and Saunders currently have no contract in 2026 buy various levels of dead money with Jordan being the highest at $14m. We could likely move on from all of these players thought I could see some staying on with smaller contracts.

The Saints will be in the position to once again build the team from the draft, which is an area they very much need to improve on and have some cap space to make moves in FA next year as well.