Tramon is visiting them tonight, supposedly. If they cut graham for cap reasons, why bring in a cb wanting 8ish per year?
Originally Posted by: musccy
Many possible reasons exist:
1. Tramon has realized the market will not dish out $8 million for a 32 year old CB and has lowered his demands;
2. Saints want to add depth at a position they are horribly thin at;
3. Saints want to gain leverage over their starting CB Keenan Lewis who said he wants to have the remaining 3 years on his contract guaranteed or else be released (
source );
4. Saints are looking to generate positive PR post-trade by bringing in a local kid; and/or
5. Saints are doing favor to Tramon's agent.
Graham still counts for for $9 million in dead money on Saints cap this year. (
source )
I was mistaken in that the Saints were over the cap. They were
$2.5 million under the cap as of yesterday, (
source ) but that doesn't factor in the ~$1.5 million additional cap charge for trading him.
Either way, Saints are really tight under the cap and are going to need to make more moves if they want to sign Tramon. Not to mention the fact that they also need a few million in cap space to sign their draft picks. I'm not sure it's a slam dunk that Tramon is leaving, frankly.
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