Saints making a push to sign Cooper Kupp [Cooper Kupp signs with Seahawks to a 3-year, $45 million deal]

SAINTSFAN said

It will definitely be negative before any restructurings. There will not be enough roll over to cover the deficit. Unless Carr has a great year, he will likely provide pretty significant cap space once released but that will likely be after June 1. Plenty of restructure potential, but will need some to get compliant again next year.

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Without Young's contract we have about 42 mil between 2025 and 2026. That doesn't include Jordan's reported pay cut or Taysom if he does. Young uses up around 22-27 mil over that time, depending on voids. Have to subtract this year draft class (~5mil). So you are in the positive right now.

I assume they cut Carr and Godcheaux. I don't think they need to wait till June 1st to cut Carr. Freeing all that money that late in FA can be kinda pointless. Maybe they do but they have plenty of options regardless.

Pretty common for the cap limit to go higher than the OTC estimate as well.

Now we sign Kupp and Becton and things change. But we're still perfectly fine. It'll be the most room we've had to maneuver in a very long time.

Edit: My apologies Reid is not in there. I guess he'll count ~15 mil over the next two years.