Potential trades

[Darrell Green Fan]

I am still trying to figure out why the Saints did this. They have serious cap issues, so they trade their bsst player at a premium position for basically a 3rd and 4th and took a $30 million cap hit. Does that make sense to anyone?

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Darrell Green Fan

I am still trying to figure out why the Saints did this. They have serious cap issues, so they trade their bsst player at a premium position for basically a 3rd and 4th and took a $30 million cap hit. Does that make sense to anyone?

Saints need to rebuild and need players to be on rookie contracts. Also they may need draft capital for any type of movement in the draft.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Saints need to rebuild and need players to be on rookie contracts. Also they may need draft capital for any type of movement in the draft.

This. The way I heard it explained is that if they kept him on, he would count an additional 18 million above the 31 Million dead cap he counts no matter what. By trading him they get rid of that 18 Million and get 3 additional potential players on rookie contracts.

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[GridIron26]

Originally Posted by Darrell Green Fan

I am still trying to figure out why the Saints did this. They have serious cap issues, so they trade their bsst player at a premium position for basically a 3rd and 4th and took a $30 million cap hit. Does that make sense to anyone?

Saints and Lattimore restructured the contract prior to the trade, I assume the restructure adjusted the amount of cap hit.