{"id":115020,"date":"2025-06-09T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/115020\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T02:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:02:09","slug":"report-former-jacksonville-jaguars-wr-gabe-davis-visiting-with-new-orleans-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/115020\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Former Jacksonville Jaguars WR Gabe Davis visiting with New Orleans Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/jaguarswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jacksonville Jaguars&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jacksonville Jaguars&#8217;<\/a> wide receiver Gabe Davis is reportedly visiting with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-orleans-saints\/350\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New Orleans Saints;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New Orleans Saints<\/a>, according to Ian Rapoport.<\/p>\n<p>Along with visiting with the Saints, Davis has also visited with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/san-francisco-49ers\/359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Francisco 49ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Giants;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Giants<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pittsburgh Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 season was Davis&#8217; only with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jaguars;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jaguars<\/a>, and a knee injury limited him to 10 games. After being a big play threat with Buffalo in his career, Davis couldn&#8217;t find that same production with the Jaguars, totaling<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/D\/DaviGa01.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:20 receptions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> 20 receptions<\/a> for 239 yards with two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With Davis having signed a three-year, $39 million deal with the Jaguars just last offseason, he leaves behind a hefty dead cap hit of $20.3 million that Jacksonville still has to absorb.<\/p>\n<p>By designating Davis as a <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/salary-cap-impact-jaguars-releasing-223614971.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:post-June 1st release;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post-June 1st release<\/a>, that dead cap hit total will be split between the 2025 and 2026 seasons. Even without Davis on the roster, $5.7 million from his original contract will still count towards Jacksonville&#8217;s 2025 salary cap as dead cap, and $14.6 million will count towards the team&#8217;s 2026 books as well.<\/p>\n<p>With Brian Thomas Jr., Travis Hunter, Dyami Brown, and Parker Washington, even if still on the team, the best-case scenario for Davis was that he was going to be the fifth receiver on the Jaguars&#8217; wide receiver depth chart, and that&#8217;s a big contract to have on the sidelines. By releasing him now, the Jaguars begin the process of getting Davis&#8217; deal off the books.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/jaguarswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jaguars\/2025\/06\/08\/report-former-jacksonville-jaguars-wr-gabe-davis-visiting-with-new-orleans-saints\/84107963007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former Jaguars WR Gabe Davis reportedly visiting New Orleans Saints;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Former Jaguars WR Gabe Davis reportedly visiting New Orleans Saints<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Jacksonville Jaguars&#8217; wide receiver Gabe Davis is reportedly visiting with the New Orleans Saints, according to Ian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[4133,4894,7,4895,5328,212,125,2401,213,896,55,56,6,8466,57,252,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-115020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-brian-thomas-jr","9":"tag-dyami-brown","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-gabe-davis","12":"tag-ian-rapoport","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","15":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","16":"tag-jaguars","17":"tag-new-orleans","18":"tag-new-orleans-saints","19":"tag-new-york-giants","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-parker-washington","22":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","23":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","24":"tag-travis-hunter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114650948961060011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}