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Following Derek Carr’s retirements, the Black and Gold will see a slight cap increase.
The New Orleans Saints, the team known around the NFL as the team that is always in salary cap hell, may actually begin the 2026 offseason with a very manageable hill to climb.
After a series of restructures and contract changes, the Saints were left with around $25 million to spend this offseason and now, that number has grown. Following the retirements of Derek Carr being officially processed on June 1, New Orleans will now have close to $30 million in cap space, which will likely be used for rollover the soften the blow of 2026.
In an article from OverTheCap.com:
“The team set to gain the most cap room should be the Saints when they officially retire Derek Carr and Ryan Ramczyk. Carr has a $20.46 million cap charge which will drop to either $13.458 million or $19.207 million depending on how the league views a signing bonus he agreed to return/not receive from the team. In either case the carryover is the same as the near $6 million difference between the two numbers would be added to the Saints cap room next season for money not earned. Carr will count for a gigantic $36.674 million on the 2026 cap.
Ramczyk had already reworked his deal to allow for this so there are almost no savings there. The team will gain just $1.25 million with his 2025 dead money at $11.08 million and his 2026 dead money at $11.98 million. The Saints should be at $30 million in cap room which will mainly be used as carryover.”
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