Salary cap strategy has been a frequent criticism of the New Orleans Saints, who go against conventional wisdom of hoarding space in case it’s needed in the future to max out all of their resources to try and win it all each year. Each strategy has its merits, New Orleans just tends to move against the flow preferred by the rest of the league.
The latest public report from the NFL Players Association has the Saints with 90 players under contract (the maximum allowed at this point in the offseason) and $7,278,543 in spending room. Here’s the top 25 hits against this year’s Saints salary cap, per Over the Cap — together, they count for $145,976,780 of the team’s total salary cap figure ($196,357,840, with some space rolled over from last season).