Derek Carr retires: Options at quarterback for Saints, including rookie Tyler Shough, pursuing Aaron Rodgers

11 NFL Time, New Orleans Saints Quarterback Derek Carr announced retirement. Carr is the shoulder wrong with this offseason and more than getting surgery and missing the entire 2025 times, carr chose to call a career.

While the rumors are already swirling of carr’s 2025 status ahead of NFL DraftWe now know that it will not be in the picture. And it means that the time start considering what St., other options will be in the center.

Many different in the team can go and we want to find a minute to explore each.

This is the option that makes the most sense. Saints as Selected selected with a second-in pick – No. 40 overall. He was the second draft of the Kellen Moore era and new Orleans clearly felt enough about him to invest significant resources in acquiring him. Shough was also touted as being an NFL-ready prospect due to his age (he turns 26 years old in September) and extensive college experience (he appeared in 42 Total Games and Made 32 Starts Across Seven Season at Oregon, Texas Tech and Louisville). Steps from getting a long look at the skough before deciding if they need to invest in the first-in quarterback next offseason, when the draft type, which is considered much more high than this year. If you have a highly high-term answer. If you are not likely to be in a good place to catch someone in 2026.

Nor do these options makes much sense. Then Rattler and Haer were going through the previous government in the new Orleans, and they were and today 3 reads. Saints don’t have a lot in both directions. We have seen them to do it begins and the results are not good. If you are not going to start a player currently in the roster, as without a problem will be a skough.

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This is a great master waiting for all offseason. Rodgers is taking his sweet time making a decision, before in whether or not even play in 2025, and then in which team play if it does not. The Pittsburgh Steelers have been seen on the front runners for services, and seemed almost as a loss of conclusion that you’d be at Pittsburgh if anything. Does the new orleans just get the mix? Nearly almost certainly to be one year bridge solution, but data is a saint, situation, it’s likely no excellent idea. They are not really in the overall state of their roster, so that he giving to the deeper area of ​​the 2026 and more difficult to find the more volatily in the words and perhaps the vetal of the flying and more than the volatility and more than the volatility and more The words and maybe when still available as well.

The same argument as above to trade for the cognized, unless it would be less sense to pursue this option because the saints also forced to surrender the capture of his head. Cousins’ $ 27.5 million base salary is also prohibitive here to new orleans only have $ 27 million in the cap room. Barring a restructure (a very bad idea) or atlanta eating some of the salary as part of the deal (which could raise the price in terms of the team, so that you do not have to do it in a team that is not in the fact that it is not in the team.

Trade for anyone else

If the saints are absolutely died in having a veteran option across tough, there are other players. It could not be able to reduce Jameis Winston making a deal with the giant. (Or not able to trade the Russell Wilson instead.) Perhaps a ram would be a part of Jimmy Garoppolo, or 49ers with Mac Jones. There are players to the rookie contacts who would have some degree of gettable according to the appetite and compensation, with guys like a snare Mckee, and a slight and aidan o’connell came to mind. But it is not of them, it seems more powerful than the starting skgy. Similarly, the future after the veteran back to Kenny Picktt or Jarrett Stidham.