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USA TODAY Sports As expected (but in recent days and weeks somewhat uncertain), future Hall of Fame quarterback Drew Brees has retired from football. Brees announced the decision on social media, with a video from his four kids and a message: “After 20 years as a player in the NFL and 15...

Getty Images With Drew Brees finally retired, the Saints can get to work on their post-Brees quarterback plan. Step one: Sign Taysom Hill to a new contract that isn’t really a new contract. The carefully crafted initial tweet from Adam Schefter of ESPN says that the “[d]etails are great,” and...

Getty Images The timing ended up being perfect. The 15th anniversary of Drew Brees‘ signing with the Saints came one day before the 2021 free-agent market unofficially opened. For planning purposes, the Saints needed to know by tomorrow whether Brees would be retiring, and now they do. So...

Getty Images Defensive tackle Mario Edwards won’t be hitting free agency, after all. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the Bears have agreed to terms with Edwards on a multi-year deal. A second-round pick of the Raiders in 2015, Edwards spent three years in Oakland before heading...

Getty Images It’s been 17 days since agent Mark Rodgers identified the four teams for which Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson would waive his no-trade clause. It’s been nine days since a report emerged that the Bears plan to make a run at a trade for Russell Wilson. Currently, as one source...

USA TODAY Sports On March 14, 2006, the Saints added a free-agent quarterback whom the Dolphins had decided not to sign. Fifteen years later, Drew Brees has become one of the best and most productive quarterbacks in league history. Jeff Duncan of TheAthletic.com notes the anniversary of Brees’...

Getty Images Lions head coach Dan Campbell is bringing one of his favorite players to Detroit. Free agent tight end Josh Hill, who was cut by the Saints this week, has signed with the Lions. The 30-year-old Hill has spent his entire eight-season career in New Orleans, and for the last five...

Getty Images Russell Wilson‘s long-term status with the Seahawks has gotten extremely shaky. His short-term status has thus become murky. There’s one thing that can happen that would slam the door on talk of a Wilson trade in 2021. As noted by Gregg Bell of the Tacoma News Tribune, the...

Getty Images Another day, another way for the Saints to inch closer to salary cap compliance. It’s another restructured contract this time. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports wide receiver Michael Thomas has converted salary into a signing bonus to open up $8.7 million in cap space. Safety...

Getty Images The Saints were talking about trading defensive tackle Malcom Brown earlier this month, but it looks like they’ll have to go another route to get his contract off the books for the 2021 season. Josina Anderson reports that the team intends to release Brown before the start of the...

Getty Images The Saints’ push to get under the salary cap will continue with the departure of cornerback Janoris Jenkins. According to multiple reports, the Saints will release Jenkins. The move comes a day after word of their plans to release wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders and linebacker Kwon...

Getty Images The Saints still have work to do to get under the salary cap, and veteran wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders is the latest casualty. New Orleans will cut Sanders, and Sanders confirmed the move on Instagram. “New Orleans it’s been real. Sucks we didn’t bring a Super Bowl to the city...

Getty Images If you haven’t heard (and there’s no way you haven’t), Oprah Winfrey recently conducted a fairly significant interview. That gave us an idea. Which NFL duo would you like to see interviewed by Oprah? We had a PFT Live draft on the subject, but we’ll gladly consider your...

Getty Images As cap crunches go, the Saints have found themselves in the middle of a big one. And they’ve been working diligently to get out of it. The biggest chunk came from Drew Brees‘ reduction of his salary from $25 million to the minimum of $1.075 million. That move initially was...

Getty Images The NFL has set the salary cap at $182.5 million for the 2021 season on Wednesday and they’ve also set the amount that teams will have to pay if they exercise their fifth-year option on 2018 first-round picks. The Collective Bargaining Agreement that the NFL and NFLPA agreed to...

Getty Images The NFL announced its 2021 compensatory draft picks, which now include special compensatory picks rewarding teams for developing minority coaches and executives. The selections this year are from the third to sixth rounds. With the CBA limiting the number of compensatory...

Getty Images Until Russell Wilson takes the first snaps of the season for the Seattle Seahawks, the question of whether he will be playing for someone else instead next season will continue to persist. Wilson has used the offseason to express some level of frustration with the team regarding...

Getty Images The Saints re-signed Ty Montgomery last week and they are bringing back another of their reserve running backs for the 2021 season. Field Yates of ESPN reports that the team has also re-signed Dwayne Washington. No terms of the deal have been revealed. Washington has spent the...

Getty Images The Saints continue to open up 2021 cap space by reworking deals with veteran players that will push portions of their cap hits down the road. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that safety Malcolm Jenkins and left guard Andrus Peat both restructured their contracts with the team...

Getty Images Saints linebacker Kwon Alexander will soon be looking for work. The Saints plan to cut Alexander before the new league year, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports. That’s no surprise; the Saints are over the $182.5 million 2021 salary cap and need to get under it within the next...