One of the more interesting questions the New Orleans Saints must answer this offseason is what they plan to do with some of their elder statesmen.

Defensive standouts Cameron Jordan and Demario Davis are both coming off strong seasons, but both are set to become free agents in their late 30s. Alvin Kamara ended the season by missing his final six games with a knee injury, and he was not productive in the 11 games in which he played. Taysom Hill suffered a major knee injury in 2024 that caused him to miss the first four games of the season, and he did not look like himself when he did return to the field.

Jordan and Davis have both already made clear they intend to play in 2026, and while both said they’d welcome a return to New Orleans, they acknowledged it isn’t totally up to them.

General manager Mickey Loomis took a similar stance when asked about them Wednesday during his press conference to wrap the 2025 season.

“I think, and it’s not just specific to those guys, but there’s a process that we go through at the end of the season,” Loomis said. “It’s an evaluation and then it’s a determination of, hey, do they want to come back? Do we want them back? And then even then, there’s a lot of variables. What’s the contract situation? What’s the timeline? There’s just too many variables for me to give you a definitive answer on any of that.

“But look, I’m excited to hear when those guys declare they want to be back here, and I would say on the surface we definitely want to have them back. But there’s just so many other variables that exist that I can’t really answer that question right now.”

It’s worth noting that both Davis ($14.3 million) and Jordan ($18.8 million) will carry dead cap charges on next year’s salary cap if they are not on the team. As they did with Chase Young and Juwan Johnson last season, the Saints can actually lower the cap figure for both if they bring them back and push the dead money into the future.

Hill is also on an expiring deal, but his dead cap hit is a more manageable $9.7 million.

Kamara has one year left on the extension he signed last season and is currently set to count $18.6 million against the team’s cap next season. Releasing him would save the team next to no money.

“He’s always been a talented guy; I don’t see a lot of difference there,” Loomis said. “And I haven’t had a conversation with Alvin since the season ended, so I’m excited to have that with him and see where he’s at in his mind space.

“He’s been in such an important part of our team for the last nine years. He’s a talented player, and we have to give him the right opportunities and we’ll see how that goes going forward.”

Here’s what else stood out from Loomis and head coach Kellen Moore’s comments after they put a bow on the season Wednesday.

Staff changes?

When asked if he would be making any changes to his coaching staff for the 2026 season, Moore gave a non-answer, saying he feels great about the staff and that he would have to be prepared for the possibility of one of them being hired away for a promotion elsewhere.

It made sense for Moore to neither give a yes or no answer to the question — he and the rest of the staff will take a short break to reset before returning to the facility, and he certainly wasn’t going to break the news of a coach being let go in a press conference.

But he also did not just flat out reject the idea, either.

Moore was asked specifically about special-teams coordinator Phil Galiano, one of the few holdovers from the previous regime’s coaching staff. New Orleans struggled mightily on special teams this season in Galiano’s first full campaign as a coordinator, ranking 31st in DVOA and last in Expected Points Added.

New Orleans also ranked last in both overall field goal percentage (71.4%) and net punting average (36.1) in 2025.

But Moore praised Galiano for the work he did navigating a fluid roster situation. As an example, he brought up rookie Jonas Sanker, who was penciled in for a core special-teams role before an injury pushed him into the defensive starting lineup.

“We did have a lot of moving pieces there,” Moore said. “And so I thought he did a really good job of helping a lot of young players get ready and prepared to contribute on our … special teams that were a little bit new to that aspect of football.

“Are there areas that we want improve on and get better? Absolutely. And that’s certainly something we’ll do in all three phases.”

Healthy outlook

By the time the season ended, the Saints were extremely limited because of a rash of injuries in the final month of the season.

Among the notable players who missed time during that stretch: The top three receivers, the top three running backs, the Nos. 2 and 3 tight ends, two starting offensive linemen, two starting defensive linemen and a starting safety.

But the good thing is, according to Moore, none of those players should be looking at such an extensive rehabilitation that they’ll not be ready for training camp next year.

“There’s plenty of guys that will go through a lot of cleanups and different things through the next week or two, and those guys will go in that process,” Moore said. “(Organized team activities), some guys will go through a little bit of a process where they’re working their way back, but training camp looks like a lot of optimism.”

Center Erik McCoy, who missed the final 10 games with a torn biceps, said he should be fully cleared to resume football activities in April.

Summer plans?

While it won’t officially be announced until next month, Drew Brees will almost certainly be made a first-ballot Hall of Famer in the 2026 class.

And with that in mind, it might impact when the Saints get things going this summer: Loomis expressed interest in participating in the annual Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio, the first preseason game of the year.

“We’ve thought about that,” Loomis said. “I don’t want to just assume that (Brees is) going to get in the Hall of Fame, but yeah, I think it’d be a good thing for a team to experience that … that whole experience of the Hall of Fame is really good for anyone involved in football and anyone who’s a fan of football. And if Drew gets in, I think it’d be a great thing for us to play in that game.”

This year’s Hall of Fame game is scheduled to be played Aug. 6.