{"id":785591,"date":"2026-03-02T01:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/785591\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:14:26","slug":"derek-carr-whispers-gives-saints-glimmer-of-trade-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/785591\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Carr Whispers Gives Saints Glimmer of Trade Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Orleans Saints could have an intriguing trade chip on their hands, if another team is willing to take a bit of a gamble.<\/p>\n

Derek Carr didn’t play in 2025 after announcing his retirement after 11 seasons in the National Football League. The four-time Pro Bowler dealt with some shoulder trouble and ended up hanging up his cleats as a result. Now, the narrative has shifted. He left the door open to a potential return during the season and fully confirmed<\/a> that he’s interested in playing again in the right scenario around the Super Bowl. <\/p>\n

“It hasn’t changed from the first interview that we did, okay,” Carr said. “Would I do it? Yes. Would I do it for anybody? Absolutely not. … Would I do it? Absolutely I would do it. I told you two things. I would have to be healthy and I would want a chance to win a Super Bowl and obviously that’s a tough thing to find. That’s hard to do. That’s not easy. … Moral of the story, would I come back? The answer obviously is yes. But I have had to say “no” a couple of times so far. <\/p>\n

Will Derek Carr return?\"New<\/p>\n

Dec 8, 2024; East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA; New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr (4) walks off the field after field after an injury during the fourth quarter at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images | Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

There hasn’t been a lot of concrete information out there since about where Carr could go, but Vincent Bonsignore of The California Post<\/a> did write on X on Sunday and noted that there “was a lot of talk” at the combine around Carr and the Minnesota Vikings. <\/p>\n

“I’d imagine if DC comes back it’ll be with a contender. There was a lot of talk in Indy about the Vikings,” Bonsignore wrote. <\/p>\n

For the Saints, it wouldn’t really matter where he would go if a team were to want him. He was retired in 2025. If the Saints got anything at all for him, that would be almost like a free draft pick. But, chatter doesn’t mean a deal is coming. <\/p>\n

Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk<\/a> reported that there hasn’t been a team to reach out to New Orleans itself yet.<\/p>\n

“Earlier this month, quarterback Derek Carr made it clear that he\u2019d end his one-year retirement to play for a Super Bowl contender,” Florio wrote. “If a team is interested in Carr, however, that team has yet to commence the process of acquiring his contractual rights. Carr remains on the Saints\u2019 reserve-retired list. Any team that wants him will have to work out a trade with the Saints. To date, the Saints have not heard (we\u2019re told) from any team that wants to make a deal for Carr.”<\/p>\n

The Vikings seemingly would be a team that could give Carr a chance to contend. But is Minnesota actually interested? That’s the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints could have an intriguing trade chip on their hands, if another team is willing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-785591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-orleans","10":"tag-new-orleans-saints","11":"tag-neworleans","12":"tag-neworleanssaints","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116156935581893052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785591","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=785591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}