It wasn’t easy, but the New Orleans Saints cleared about $100 million to get beneath the depressed 2021 salary cap, and now more help is on the way. One avenue they took to get here was a reworked contract with Drew Brees early this spring, before he made his retirement official. Now that an important date on the NFL calendar is here, June 1 forecasts more cap savings for New Orleans.
Back in February, Brees and the Saints agreed to reduce his 2021 base salary to the NFL minimum, which introduced immediate savings of just under $24 million (lowering his 2021 cap hit from $36.