According to Jeff Duncan, veteran CB Marshon Lattimore will spend an eighth season in New Orleans unless the Saints receive an irresistible trade offer at the last minute.
This summer, Lattimore’s future with the Saints has been unclear, and since March, trade rumors have involved him.
The two parties modified Lattimore’s contract late in the previous season to allow for the possibility of a trade, and Duncan admits that the relationship between the player and the team was “frosty” earlier this year.
Duncan notes, however, that it doesn’t seem like the Saints were pleased with the trade proposals they were given for Lattimore. Now, it seems like both parties are prepared to take advantage of the circumstances and work things out.
According to Duncan, Lattimore has expressed his happiness in New Orleans and want to remain with the Saints. The Saints have informed Lattimore that they want him on the team, but they have put a task on him to improve as a player.
I’m interested to watch how things develop from this point on. The Saints may sell Lattimore much more easily from a cap management standpoint after June 1st, as they recently selected CB Kool-Aid McKinstry in a trade-up at the conclusion of the previous month.
Lattimore, 28, was previously selected by the Saints in the first round out of Ohio State in 2017. When the Saints exercised his fifth-year option, he was headed into the final year of his four-year, $15.35 million contract and would have received a basic salary of $1.53 million for the 2020 campaign.
Under the terms of the fifth-year option, Lattimore was expected to earn $10.244 million in 2021. After agreeing to a five-year, $97.6 million agreement with the Saints that could have been worth up to $100 million, he was expected to become an unrestricted free agency in 2022.
$15 million is due to him in 2024, while the last two years of his deal are worth $18.5 million and $18 million, respectively.
During his ten games with the Saints in 2023, Lattimore totaled 48 tackles, two tackles for loss, one interception, and eight pass deflections.
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