The New Orleans Saints are already being mentioned as a potential landing-spot for Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr, who was benched this week to protect the team from jeopardizing lucrative guarantees for injury written into his contract. And it’s easy to see why: New Orleans doesn’t have a viable franchise quarterback after sending Jameis Winston to the shadow realm and riding out their season with Andy Dalton.
More important than that, though, is that Saints head coach Dennis Allen drafted Carr back in 2014 when he was the Raiders head coach. The Athletic’s Jeff Howe is one national writer seeing that link, but his trade proposal bringing Carr to New Orleans is too much to pay for a mediocre quarterback — even one with Carr’s extensive starting experience. Howe writes:
