{"id":16402,"date":"2025-05-01T23:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T23:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/16402\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T23:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T23:07:11","slug":"saints-release-qb-ben-dinucci-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/16402\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints Release QB Ben DiNucci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The addition of a quarterback via the draft added to the logjam at the position for New Orleans. The team\u2019s depth chart has now be thinned, however. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.profootballrumors.com\/files\/2024\/05\/USATSI_21247633-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-327922 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;margin: 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/USATSI_21247633-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/D\/DiNuBe00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-29_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ben DiNucci<\/a>\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/B_DiNucci6\/status\/1917215350145327220\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced on Tuesday<\/a> he has been released. The 28-year-old <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/2024\/12\/saints-sign-qb-ben-dinucci\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">joined the Saints in December<\/a> in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/C\/CarrDe02.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-29_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Derek Carr<\/a> getting injured. DiNucci did not see any playing time down the stretch, and he will not have the opportunity to compete for a roster spot during training camp as a result of today\u2019s move.<\/p>\n<p>To close out the 2024 season, New Orleans used\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/R\/RattSp00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-29_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spencer Rattler<\/a>\u00a0as a starter for six games. The 2024 fifth-rounder is joined by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/H\/HaenJa00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-29_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jake Haener<\/a>\u00a0(selected in the fourth round of the 2023 draft) as a depth option behind Carr. Of course, it remains to be seen when the Saints\u2019 starter will be available as he weighs the option of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/2025\/04\/saints-making-calls-on-path-to-qb-pick-derek-carr-clarity-proving-elusive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">undergoing surgery<\/a> on his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, New Orleans drafted a quarterback for the third consecutive year.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/tyler-shough-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-29_cfb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Shough<\/a>\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/2025\/04\/saints-add-qb-tyler-shough-at-no-40\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">heard his name called 40th overall<\/a>, and the Louisville product will compete for the backup gig during his rookie season (provided Carr is available to start the season). With that quartet of signal-callers in place \u2013 along with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/hunter-dekkers-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-29_cfb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hunter Dekkers<\/a>\u00a0as an invitee to rookie minicamp (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeTriplett\/status\/1917226393445748902\" rel=\"nofollow\">h\/t Mike Triplett of NewOrleans.Football<\/a>) \u2013 it comes as little surprise DiNucci has been let go.<\/p>\n<p>A seventh-round pick of the Cowboys in 2020, DiNucci made three appearances and one start during his rookie campaign. He has yet to see any regular season NFL action since then, and with the draft now in the books most teams\u2019 depth charts are set for the summer. DiNucci will nevertheless turn his attention to finding a new opportunity for 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The addition of a quarterback via the draft added to the logjam at the position for New Orleans.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[6734,7,896,55,2572,2571,6,397,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-16402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-ben-dinucci","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanssaints","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-saints","16":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114435093339645287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16402","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=16402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}