The New Orleans Saints are turning attention to 2024, and they’re in better shape than their salary cap situation would have you think. While they’re in the red by a wider margin than any other team, it’s not like the Saints have a ton of players they’ll need to re-sign — they have 54 players under contract for the 2024 season, 14th-most around the league (55 if you count Andrus Peat, which you shouldn’t, because his contract expires on March 13).
Of course it’s more complicated than that, as it always is with this team. The Saints must choose whether to release or extend Michael Thomas and Jameis Winston by mid-March or else take on crippling cap penalties. But they are technically under contract right now, so we’ll count them until that changes.
With that in mind, here’s a quick look at the state of the Saints’ roster for 2024 (and you can find the full list of pending free agents here) along with their salary cap hits: