Jahri Evans restructures contract.
 

New Orleans Saints guard Jahri Evans also restructured his contract, saving New Orleans about $2 million on the cap.

New Orleans Saints guard Jahri Evans restructures contract to help free cap space

Finally, someone besides Will Smith.

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Saints guard Jahri Evans also restructured his contract, saving New Orleans about $2 million on the cap.
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good news!

This is Epic.

Hopefully setting an example for Nicks and freeing up space for Brees.

Starting to become cautiously optimistic...

Jahri Evans restructures, saves Saints $2 million | ProFootballTalk

The Saints have freed up a little bit of much-needed salary cap space.

Guard Jahri Evans, who signed a seven-year, $56.7 million contract in 2010 that made him the highest-paid guard in the league at the time, has restructured his deal, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The restructuring saves the Saints $2 million in salary cap space.

New Orleans is still not in great cap shape, especially considering how much money they’re going to need to free up to sign free agent quarterback Drew Brees to a new deal.

And, of course, they’ve got some bounty-related problems to deal with at the moment as well.

Loomis doing work.

Great news.

... encouraging ...

Papz nailed it....

Loomis is busting his beehind right now.

Keep the good news a'coming!

I think we will see 3-4 signings over the weekend. I'll bet the Evans deal directly relates to Nicks signing

Carl, stay home my friend. We want you and we need you.

Nice show of class there jahri, your the best at your position, thanks for being a team first guy

Finally some good news around here, hope this helps out getting Nicks resigned

Carl Nicks should take note.

Both of them are all-time greats individually, but I think they realize that they aren't going to ever be better than when they are playing together.

Think it shows that the players want to stay together and keep a good thing going. They are showing their support for Brees.

This is great news but lets not make it seem like Jahri is taking a pay cut. This restructuring just means he's making more guaranteed money, like what Eli just did. Players like Jahri LOVE when a teams comes to them to restructure.

I do like how we are getting creative with the cap to free up space for some of our other free agents. Lets now use this space and get some guys signed!

Very encouraging seeing Evans accept a restructure, even thought it didn't free up a whole lot of cap, but every little counts in this situation.

Very true, but the fact remains we're clearing cap room. Obviously we need a carrot to convince players to restructure. I'm sure Loomis isn't giving away the farm to lower this year's cap.

I'm sure there are some restructures where players take a paycut, but the alternative may be their release and very few options of increasing their pay.

But you are correct, I'm sure Jahri got some financial incentives to restructure.

Now What Nicks!

I wonder if Will was given a paycut?

Let it be known that Mickey is hard @ work!Another thing to mention is that we have some solid character guys who are showing their true colors!(in a good way)

TEAM PLAYERS is what Payton wanted correct....
This makes Pete happy to some degree

Now if we could only........

No, his overall numbers remained the same. It was just restructured with less counting towards this year's cap.

And the last year is no longer optional like it was under the former contract.

This is not money for Brees. This is money for a DEFENSE.

get on the stick, Mickey. Get us a pass rusher and 3 good LB's!!

So basically we extended his contract, shifted a portion of his future salary to guaranteed money, and lowered the cap.

win-win-win

He brought in Spagnuola is this not enough?
I know I know

NO!!!!!!!!lol

He'll right the ship Just as he did with NYG.
Potential was right there on the roster;Just had to reconfigure A couple positions.

Jahri Evans, Thanks. You lead by example.

Thx Jahri. You are da' man.

I hope you get your just rewards.

That's good to hear

Y'all do know that restructuring does not mean less money, right? It means shifting some to bonus and delaying some in return for more guaranteed dollars. Nobody voluntarily restructures their contract without some sort of financial gain in return.

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They know that for sure.

But you know, it is nice to hear some positive news once in a while.

I'm starting to think that this Bountygate may have woken your boy Loomis up....

A little here and a little there starts to add up real soon. Maybe we can sign Drew then get him to restructure!!:wink: