New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis and his salary cap mismanagement has been a joke around the NFL community for a couple of years now. Restructuring contracts as with defensive end Cameron Jordan and punter Thomas Morstead, trading young assets like tight end Jimmy Graham and wideout Kenny Stills, and releasing veteran starters like linebacker Curtis Lofton has almost been an annual tradition.
However, that’s over in 2017. I ran the numbers, looked through archived reports, and found a great conclusion: the Saints are, relatively speaking, in a totally different salary cap situation this year than the last three.