The NFL’s legal tampering window before free agency opens up a week from Monday, so we took our best shot at predicting which New Orleans Saints players could return and who might be wearing a new uniform next season. We whittled the list of 27 pending free agents down to the 18 most-prominent candidates, which ranges from household names like Drew Brees and Taysom Hill to deeper cuts such as Dwayne Washington and Cameron Tom.
Of these 18, we guessed that 11 Saints free agents will return. And out of the seven remaining players, six were unrestricted free agents who will factor into the compensatory pick formula for the 2021 NFL Draft.