{"id":854036,"date":"2026-04-04T22:15:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/854036\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:15:05","slug":"saints-add-to-roster-in-2026-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/854036\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints add to roster in 2026 free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a gravitational pull to a good NFL quarterback. You can&#8217;t see it, but it&#8217;s a powerful force. And the New Orleans Saints are feeling it this offseason. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/credit-tyler-shough-for-the-saints-success-in-free-agency\/article_be5bab0f-621f-4e13-b770-8407f0b74c88.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jeff Duncan: Tyler Shough\u2019s \u2018wow factor\u2019 has changed the perception of the New Orleans Saints\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first day of NFL free agency came and went with Kaden Elliss unsigned. This was an unexpected development for the 30-year-old linebacker. But what happened on Day 2 left him even more surprised. That was when the New Orleans Saints, the team that drafted him seven years earlier, came calling. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/saints-kaden-elliss-replaces-demario-davis\/article_28c797fc-fe5e-4400-840b-5646dce7e389.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Kaden Elliss didn\u2019t expect a Saints reunion in free agency. But then Demario Davis left.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Edwards didn&#8217;t need to speak with anyone from the New Orleans Saints before he agreed to join the franchise on a four-year, $61 million deal in the opening hour of NFL free agency. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/saints-david-edwards-reveals-why-he-signed\/article_12deb58e-288e-4854-aee9-d4062d7d2106.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New Saints guard David Edwards reveals what led him to sign with New Orleans in free agency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a gravitational pull to a good NFL quarterback. You can&#8217;t see it, but it&#8217;s a powerful force.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,81,2003,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-854036","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-latest-news","10":"tag-morning-break","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116348749576877430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854036","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=854036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}