Look around the NFL Twitter community or its subreddit and you’ll see a lot of pearl-clutching going on about the Saints salary cap, but there isn’t much worry going on in New Orleans. The Saints have stuck to their plan every step of the way to get here, hours before the 2021 NFL draft begins, and they’ll continue to be mindful of how to best maximize their resources. So how much cap space do they have anyway?
There are a lot of moving parts at this stage in the offseason so numbers are very much in flux, but the latest report from the NFL Players Association lists the Saints with $529,494 in breathing room beneath the cap, and 63 players under contract (of a possible 90).