This could be big: Brett Martel reports for the Associated Press that the New Orleans Saints are working towards a contract extension with Cameron Jordan, aiming to sign a new deal before the team kicks off training camp in late July. Martel adds that Jordan’s agents are looking for an extension “of at least two years.”
Jordan, who turns 34 on July 10, is in the final year of his contract with a salary cap hit valued at $15.1 million — highest on the team. If his deal remains untouched, it will void after the 2023 season and he’ll become a free agent while leaving more than $23.3 million behind in dead money due to restructuring from his past contracts.
So it makes sense to try and get out in front of that, move more money around, and try to set up Jordan to play out his career in New Orleans. He’s been everything the team could have hoped for when they drafted him back in 2011. Jordan has appeared in eight Pro Bowls while rarely missing a game.
He also won the team’s all-time sacks record last season (though the great Rickey Jackson is unofficially still ahead of him with 8 more sacks from his 1981 rookie season, with the stat not being officially tracked until 1982). Ensuring Jordan never wears a different uniform in the NFL while giving him the opportunity to silence any question about who holds the Saints sacks record would be good for all involved.
So both sides are motivated to get this done. We’ll see if they can close the deal.
