Seemingly every year, the enter the NFL offseason with negative cap space, and have to frantically move money around in Tommy Wingels Jersey order to begin the new league year in compliance with salary cap rules. This year is no different as the Saints have already restructured the contracts of five players, and they still have more work to do.On Friday Paul Martin Jersey , the Saints restructured the deal of safety , . It appears the team converted a portion of Mathieu's base salary into a signing bonus and added a void year on the end of his deal, allowing the Saints to clear just shy of $4.7 million from their books for the 2023 campaign.The move came after New Orleans Joe Pavelski Jersey had previously engaged in similar cap mechanics with the contracts of center , right tackle , safety and kicker . That quintet of maneuvers cleared around $30 million in cap room ... but the Saints still have $30 million more to go to get under the cap by the beginning of the 2023 league year. New Orleans has some options as it can restructure the contracts of players like and and designate as a post-June 1 release, but even that trio of Joonas Donskoi Jersey moves might still leave the team short of where it needs to get. Mickey Loomis and Chris Tierney Jersey Co. will once again need to get creative before they can even approach participating in the offseason, but then again, that's what they need to go pretty much every year. They'll figure it out.
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