Category: Cameron Jordan

Cameron Jordan donates $25,000 to New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund, how you can help

Cameron Jordan donated $25,000 to the New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund, here’s how you can help support victims and their families:

Cameron Jordan has always been a good example for how New Orleans Saints players can be a positive influence in the community, and he’s stepping up again in the wake of the Bourbon Street terror attack.

Jordan announced that he has joined the Greater New Orleans Foundation and the City of New Orleans to donate $25,000 to the New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund, intended to “assist the families of those who lost their lives and those who were severely injured.”

He encouraged fans to donate to those impacted. A gunman drove a pickup down the crowded street of revelers celebrating the new year, killing 15 people and sending dozens more to the hospital with injuries, before he died in a shootout with police. Many victims are still recovering and their families and loved ones need support. It’s good to see Jordan leading the charge like this.

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Cameron Jordan addresses 2025 speculation after final 2024 home game

Cameron Jordan addressed speculation about what’s in store for him in 2025 after his final home game with the Saints in 2024:

Speculation about franchise legend Cameron Jordan’s future with the New Orleans Saints started to pick up entering the team’s final home game of the 2024 season. Jordan’s obvious emotion before, during and after game,  having led the “Who Dat” chant with his whole family watching and sticking around late to sign autographs, only fueled the fire.

In speaking to the media afterwards, Jordan addressed the speculation and gave a couple of interesting quotes regarding his next steps after this season. First, a comment shared by

Jordan says he won’t leave the team of his own choosing, telling ESPN’s Katherine Terrell: “If you want to shut that door for me, you’re going to have to shut it for me because I’m not going to do it to myself. As much as I bleed, I think I only bleed black and gold, but if you force me to go bleed somewhere else, a soldier fights wherever, whenever, however.”

These past two seasons haven’t been the same as Jordan is used to in that black and gold, but he is showing at least some signs of life again. He has 14 tackles with five for a loss and three sacks in the past three games.

He also let out some of the frustration that he has felt from the disappointing season, understanding that fans are upset.

“The city of New Orleans has always rocked with us,” Jordan reflected, via the Times-Picayune’s Luke Johnson. “Even in a piss-poor season like this one, it’s still all the TeeTees and MawMaws and PawPaws and Parrains out there taking care of us. I’ve got nothing but love for it, so I was trying to show a little appreciation. And if it is the last one, I’m going to go out my way anyways.”

Jordan made his point pretty clear. He’ll stay as long as the Saints will have him. But if they’re ready to move on, and the salary cap might demand it, he’ll go searching for new opportunities without any ill will.

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Cameron Jordan sacked his 49th career QB against the Raiders

Cameron Jordan sacked the 49th quarterback of his 14-year Saints career against the Raiders on Sunday:

In what could be the last home game of his New Orleans Saints career, Cameron Jordan had an early sack against the Las Vegas Raiders that added to his impressive resume.

After taking down Raiders quarterback Aidan O’Connell in the first quarter, Jordan has now sacked 49 different quarterbacks in his 14-year career.

It is an impressive stat that also comes off as kind of bittersweet. Jordan recently stated his intention to play in 2025, whether it is with the Saints or not. Now, in the last home game of the season, the realization that it might be over is starting to sink in.

If he does indeed leave New Orleans next year, Jordan’s impressive 121.5 career sacks will go down as the most in franchise history and will stay that way for a long time.

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Saints extending Cameron Jordan named team’s worst mistake since 2020

What was the New Orleans Saints’ worst mistake since 2020? ESPN’s Bill Barnwell argues it was extending Cameron Jordan last summer:

A lot has gone wrong for the New Orleans Saints since the end of the Drew Brees-Sean Payton era and a lot of their problems can be brought back to their money issues.

When they were winning, it was easy to defend their unusual cap practices as it kept them afloat. Now that the Saints are at the bottom of the league, some decisions stick out like a sore thumb.

ESPN’s Bill Barnwell recently ranked each team’s worst decision since the 2020 season and for New Orleans at No. 23, it had to do with an extension given to a franchise legend. Back in 2023, the Saints signed Cameron Jordan to a two-year, $27.9 million extension. The results have not been ideal. Here was what Barnwell had to say about it:

Had the Saints had a healthy cap situation, they could have let his deal play out and expire after 2023. Instead, because they needed to get their cap right in previous years, they repeatedly restructured his deal, leaving a potential dead money hit. To avoid that, they gave him a two-year deal with $14 million guaranteed at signing, with virtually all of that coming in 2024. They’ll also owe Jordan $1.5 million more in 2025. When they cut him after this season, they will still owe $24 million in dead money.

Jordan is a legend in New Orleans and will forever be loved by the team and the city. It is clear that he is not as effective as he once was and is hard to justify keeping around, though it remains to be seen whether the team will release him or if he’ll choose to retire. He has just five sacks since the start of 2023 and two of them came last week against the Washington Commanders.

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Darren Rizzi sees a ‘reenergized’ Cameron Jordan amid late-season hot sreak

Cameron Jordan’s production has soared in the past few weeks, and Darren Rizzi believes some changes have reenergized the defensive end:

One player that has stepped up his play in recent weeks is Cameron Jordan. Jordan didn’t have a good season last year and started this season slow as well. The defensive end even began to be phased out of the rotation.

Jordan has awoken over the last five weeks. He’s getting to the quarterback and making impact plays again. Darren Rizzi described Jordan as being “reenergized” during this hot streak.

But what changed? Why is one of the leaders of the New Orleans Saints suddenly improving and feeling reenergized in the middle of the season?

The Saints changed philosophically when they changed head coaches. Rizzi moved position coaches around, too, putting longtime pass-rush specialist Brian Young in a more prominent role working with the entire defensive line, instead of Todd Grantham.

Jordan received one of the biggest direct impacts from the changes. Instead of being phased out of the rotation, Jordan has returned to being a critical piece. Pro Football Focus charting has credited him with 26 pressures this season and 15 of them have come in the five games since Rizzi took over and charged Young with livening up the defensive line, including Jordan.

Rizzi points to playing time and style of play as reasons for this improvement from Jordan: “I think the fact he has more opportunity to play, number one. We made the change and tried to simplify things up front these last five games.”

Rizzi also mentioned the way the Saints are practicing as a benefit to Jordan as well. There have been many changes in New Orleans since Rizzi has taken over and many of them have benefitted Jordan.

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Cameron Jordan praises coaching change after Saints’ 8-sack performance

Cameron Jordan commended coach Brian Young for a quick turnaround on the defensive line after the Saints’ 8-sack performance against the Washington Commanders:

The New Orleans Saints had quite the day on the defensive line, as they were generating an immense amount of pressure against the Washington Commanders, and ended the game with a whopping eight sacks for 37 yards. This was one of the best defensive performances we have seen from the Saints front-seven unit in a decent amount of time, and veteran defensive end Cameron Jordan credited their new position coach Brian Young for the improvement we have seen in recent weeks.

Young replaced Todd Grantham as defensive line coach a few weeks back, in the wake of Dennis Allen being dismissed as head coach. Grantham was reassigned to work as a senior assistant but left recently to join Oklahoma State’s staff.

“Just the way he’s able to realize talents and utilize the D-line to the best of its abilities since he’s sort of took over. And you can see the night and day (difference),” Jordan told reporters after the game. “When you have a guy who’s been a D-lineman for 30-plus years, you can see its effects.”

The last two weeks especially, there has been a significantly improved output from the Saints in terms of pass-rush success, and one of the most notable turnarounds has been Chase Young, who ended the day with two sacks after a 12-pressure performance last week.

Young’s biggest issue early in the season was generating pressure but not impacting the opposing quarterbacks with hits or sacks, however as of late that has not been the case, and the Saints have found a way to unlock his potential. Hopefully coach Brian Young will be able to continue this turnaround, and the Saints can find the defensive line success they had in years prior.

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Cameron Jordan had his first multi-sack game since 2022 season

Cameron Jordan had his first multi-sack game since 2022 against the Washington Commanders. The New Orleans Saints pass rush is heating up:

This time of year is usually prime time for New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan.

On Sunday against the Washington Commanders, Jordan achieved his first multi-sack game since late in the 2022 season, back on New Year’s Day 2023 against the Philadelphia Eagles. Jordan tallied up three sacks on Eagles backup Gardner Minshew in a game in which they would win 20-10.

Jordan had two sacks against Commanders rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels, to bump his total to three on the season. Coincidentally, Jordan’s three sacks in 2024 have all came during interim head coach Darren Rizzi’s tenure.

It has been very evident that Cam’s play as of late has been much more impressive in this second half of the season. On Sunday, his play was crucial in containing a player like Daniels and making sure that he doesn’t extend plays on the perimeter.

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Cameron Jordan sacked the 48th quarterback of his 14-year career

Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan sacked the 48th quarterback of his 14-year career, bringing down Washington Commanders rookie Jayden Daniels on Sunday:

Cameron Jordan sacks Jayden Daniels for his 119.5th sack. Daniels is the 48th quarterback Jordan has sacked in his Saints career.

— John (@johnsigler.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 1:45 PM

The New Orleans Saints defensive line started strong against the Washington Commanders in Week 15, and 14-year veteran defensive end Cameron Jordan managed to bring down Jayden Daniels in the first half. This sack was good for the 48th different quarterback he has sacked in his career, which brings his career total to 119.5.

Jordan has had a slow season in that category so far, with this being only his second sack on the season which would tie 2023 as his second lowest total (aside from his rookie year, in which he only had one). This brings him ever closer to 22nd on the all-time sacks list as well, where he looks to pass Clyde Simmons who has a total of 121.5. We will see where Jordan ends up finishing his career in this category, but regardless it will be very close to the top of the list.

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Cameron Jordan had the perfect response to Marshon Lattimore’s debut vs. Saints

Cameron Jordan found out Marshon Lattimore would make his debut against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday, and he reacted just like any other fan:

Marshon Lattimore had to return from injury at some point, and all signs point to him making his Washington Commanders debut against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday.

Veteran defensive end Cameron Jordan had an extremely relatable reaction to this news: “Just knew it. Just knew he was going to wait for this game.”

This was a predictable scenario, so we’ve been tracking Lattimore’s health for a couple of weeks. His practice status improved just before the Commanders’ bye week. That was a huge signal he’d be ready for Week 15, coming out the bye, against his former team.

Jordan, like many Saints fans, still believes in Lattimore’s talent. Jordan gave Lattimore his credit, calling him the team’s best cornerback. Quantity of games has been a much larger obstacle than quality of play for the former Pro Bowler.

 As the Saints take on the Commanders, Lattimore will be going against a depleted Saints receiving corps. Regardless of who he’s facing, the “Marshon Lattimore Revenge Game” is the attention-grabber of Week 15.

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Cameron Jordan only needed six letters to react to last-second Rams loss

Cameron Jordan only needed six letters to describe the reaction in the Saints locker room after their last-second loss to the Rams:

There’s a lot you could say about the New Orleans Saints’ loss tot he Los Angeles Rams last week. It was another missed opportunity to right the ship and salvage a season some would say has already been lost. It was a waste of a great effort by Cameron Jordan and the defense, who pitched a rare shutout in the first half. It was something of a disaster as star playmakers like Taysom Hill went down with season-ending injuries. And there were elements of encouragement when backup wide receivers like Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Kevin Austin Jr., and Dante Pettis came through in clutch moments.

But Jordan needed just one six-letter word to describe the mood in the locker room after players walked off the field, having taken a 21-14 loss after leading for most of three quarters.

“Pissed,” Jordan told reporters after the game. “We let one get away. We don’t have enough time to let one get away.”

He’s not wrong. The Saints are barely holding on as the NFC playoff picture gets painted without them. They’re 4-8 and even playing in a weak division won’t be enough to squeeze them in for January’s playoff tournament. They can’t afford to lose any more ground.

Jordan, specifically, is someone running out of time. The longest-tenured player in New Orleans is facing a decision on retirement this offseason with just one year left on his contract; his workload has been reduced at times as the team has tried to rotate younger players into the lineup to try and find a spark. These next five games might be his last five games in a Saints uniform.

So letting an opportunity to beat a team that’s given them so much trouble over the years is frustrating. For the stakes to be as high as they are? Doubly so. Things might have gone differently if the offense could have ended more drives with points early on, or if protection had held up half a second longer on their final play from scrimmage — allowing Derek Carr to find an open man in the end zone right as Juwan Johnson stepped into a hole in the Rams’ coverage.

But that’s a whole lot of words to achieve the same result Jordan did in just one. The Saints don’t have time to harbor regrets or vent frustrations. All they can do now is focus on their next game and go to work.

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