METAIRIE, La. -- Even by the New Orleans Saints’ standards, this was a bit of a salary-cap stunner.
The Saints began this offseason nearly $75 million over the NFL’s $208.2 million salary cap. Yet they pushed more than $110 million in cap costs into future years without cutting a single player in case they needed to make room for a trade for quarterback Deshaun Watson.
Instead, they can now either spend that space on other free agents (including the quarterback they still need) or carry over any leftover space into 2023.