The New Orleans Saints are currently broke. They reportedly have less than $350,000 of cap space in 2021, despite the fact that they will need around $2.5 million just to sign their rookie class.
The Saints don’t really have many options left for restructures to free up the necessary cap space, leaving only three options: 1) releasing a player, 2) trading a player(s), and/or 3) extending players. Setting aside scenarios one and two for now considering how many holes are left remaining on the team and how obvious the third scenario is, let’s look at simple extensions.