Alvin Kamara doesn’t want to be traded. And the Saints officially don’t want to trade him.
Via Mike Garafolo of NFL Media, the Saints and Kamara have worked out a new deal that extends his stay through 2026.
Kamara was under contract through 2025, at a phoney-baloney final-year compensation package of $25 million. That’s now gone.
He’ll now make less on the new two-year deal — $24.5 million — than he was due to make in 2025 under the old deal. But he was never going to make $25 million in 2025; that number was all about boosting the annual new-money average of his old contract to $15 million per year.
Technically, the new contract has a negative new-money APY. Again, 2025 was never a real year.
Bottom line? The Saints will be keeping Kamara beyond 2024. Which removes the incentive to trade him before November 5, when the window closes.