He’s rewarded them by ranking second-worst in pressures allowed, per Pro Football Focus (only rookie center-guard convert Cesar Ruiz has more, with 22 pressures on 334 pass-block reps; Peat has 20 on 393 snaps), including a team-high 4 sacks.

In other words, the Saints have a choice: they can cut him in March and eat a big loss in salary cap accounting, or wait until 2023, when they’ll first recoup some resources by parting with him (saving $9.225 million in cap space). There are still games to play this year, but the clock is effectively ticking on when exactly they’d like to take this gut punch.