{"id":478869,"date":"2024-02-23T19:12:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T23:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478869"},"modified":"2024-02-23T19:12:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T23:12:33","slug":"new-orleans-reworks-carr-contract-gets-23-million-dollars-to-cap","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/new-orleans-reworks-carr-contract-gets-23-million-dollars-to-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans reworks Carr contract, gets 23 million dollars to cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints are restructuring QB <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/derek-carr\/\">Derek Carr<\/a>&#8216;s deal in a move that is expected to give the franchise around 23 million dollars in salary cap.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\udde3\ud835\udde2\ud835\udde5\ud835\udde7: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saints?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Saints<\/a> have cleared over $23M in cap space by restructuring the contract of Derek Carr, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JFowlerESPN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JFowlerESPN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NJQU2dbr4I\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NJQU2dbr4I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasrifootball\/status\/1761053426207670634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Derek was due 30 million dollars in base salary for the upcoming campaign, so converting a large portion of that into an inking bonus is great for New Orleans, as the organization must free up to 80 million dollars via restructuring.<\/p>\n<p>This is 1 of the few deals the franchise is set to make, along with reworking the contracts of center <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/erik-mccoy\/\">Erik McCoy<\/a>, guard <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/cesar-ruiz\/\">Cesar Ruiz<\/a>, and DE Cam Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>Derek, who is 32 years old, appeared in his 1<sup>st<\/sup> campaign with the Saints in the past season, throwing for 3,878 yards with 25 TDs and 8 picks. But the team, 9-8, was defeated in t the NFC South tiebreaker by Tampa Bay Bucs, extending their postseason drought to 3 campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Carr remains under deal through the 2026 campaign on a 4-year contract he inked with New Orleans last year that could be worth as much as 150 million dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints are restructuring QB Derek Carr&#8216;s deal in a move that is expected to give the franchise around 23 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478870,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17261,16920,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[20149,18427,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The Saints reworked the quarterback Derek contract.","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\/478869"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478873,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478869\/revisions\/478873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478869"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478869"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}