{"id":427679,"date":"2023-02-27T01:40:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T06:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427679"},"modified":"2023-02-27T01:40:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T06:40:45","slug":"qb-jameis-winston-not-planning-to-leave-saints-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/qb-jameis-winston-not-planning-to-leave-saints-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"QB Jameis Winston not planning to leave Saints in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>New Orleans Saints quarterback Jameis Winston said he is not making any plans for a future outside the NFL club just yet despite being relegated to backup duties following his back injury last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ICYMI: QB Jameis Winston still preparing for possibility of staying with Saints in 2023. &quot;Technically I&#39;m not a free agent just yet,&quot; said Winston. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dBDdVDVK9t\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/dBDdVDVK9t<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OvoyGN7eMx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OvoyGN7eMx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Around The NFL (@AroundTheNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AroundTheNFL\/status\/1630064431169421313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Injuries derailed Winston&#8217;s 2022 season, as he suffered fractured vertebrae which ultimately caused him to be inactive for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Even after he healed up he never returned to the field, being benched in favor of Andy Dalton and relegated to backup duties.<\/p>\n<p>But despite his current position, Winston, who is entering the second year of a two-year contract with the Saints, is not counting himself out of the running on a New Orleans squad that has no clear option at quarterback as of yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Technically I&#8217;m not a free agent just yet, I have one more year under contract,&#8221; Winston said Saturday on NFL Network during the HBCU Legacy Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My main thing right now is making sure I just stay healthy and be ready to play. That&#8217;s the only thing that&#8217;s on my mind. I&#8217;ve got to be ready to play because when given the opportunity, I look forward to taking advantage of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans, however, could release him after the new league year begins with a post-June 1st designation, saving the Saints from having to pay his non-guaranteed salary of $12.8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Saints quarterback Jameis Winston said he is not making any plans for a future outside the NFL club just yet despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427680,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16920],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He is entering the second year of a two-year contract with New Orleans","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427679"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427679"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}