{"id":807370,"date":"2026-03-12T02:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/807370\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:01:20","slug":"saints-trade-p-kai-kroeger-to-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/807370\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints trade P Kai Kroeger to Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After New Orleans recently signed former Minnesota Vikings punter and Tulane alum Ryan Wright to a lucrative four-year $14 million deal with $8 million guaranteed, the team has now traded former undrafted free agent punter Kai Kroeger to the Houston Texans, with the teams swapping 2028 sixth and seventh-round draft picks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now that the Saints have finally invested in special teams, this will mark the fourth consecutive season New Orleans is entering with a new punter. It also ends a three-year streak of undrafted free agent rookies, as the team has gone from Lou Hedley, Matthew Hayball and Kroeger over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Punting was a major issue for the Saints in 2025. Kroeger\u2019s 63.9 punting grade ranked 25th out of 32 qualifying punters, according to Pro Football Focus. On 56 punts, his 38.64-yard net average ranked 28th at the position, while his long of 61 yards also ranked 28th, and his 18 punts inside the 20-yard line ranked 29th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the Saints, getting any compensation for Kroeger is a win. They originally signed him as an undrafted free agent during training camp, and now they\u2019ve ended up receiving a draft pick in return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After New Orleans recently signed former Minnesota Vikings punter and Tulane alum Ryan Wright to a lucrative four-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[7,221,253,2368,3578,401,2588,6,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-807370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-texans","11":"tag-houstontexans","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints-free-agency","13":"tag-new-orleans-saints-news","14":"tag-new-orleans-saints-roster","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116213743634081217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807370","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=807370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}