{"id":858020,"date":"2026-04-07T02:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858020\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:55:15","slug":"espns-biggest-saints-question-aimed-at-5-time-pro-bowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858020\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN&#8217;s biggest Saints&#8217; question aimed at 5-time Pro Bowler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/nfl\/new-orleans-saints\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Saints<\/a> under Kellen Moore showed improvement down the stretch last season, and now, looking toward 2026, there is a little bit of hope for the NFC South franchise.<\/p>\n<p>This offseason, the big move has been the acquisition of running back Travis Etienne, but with that completed, it casts doubt on Alvin Kamara&#8217;s future with the franchise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just 471 rushing yards, 1 TD, and 186 receiving yards last season were Kamara&#8217;s lowest-ever totals in his NFL career. The now 30-year-old is having questions raised over his future with the addition of Etienne.<\/p>\n<p>And for ESPN&#8217;s Katherine Terrell, what the Saints do with Kamara is a fascinating watch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest question in the running back room is whether Alvin Kamara and Etienne will be playing together in 2026,&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48371943\/new-orleans-saints-2026-kellen-moore-roster-nfl-draft-running-backs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Terrell wrote<\/a>. &#8220;With both backs set to each make more than $11 million this season, there&#8217;s also the question of whether Kamara returns on his current contract.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/news\/mock-drafts-hint-interesting-chiefs-offseason-plan\/bef633aad7b5e7d9275b3ba9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mock drafts hint at interesting Chiefs offseason plan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could Saints deal Kamara?<\/p>\n<p>Well, with reports that Kamara will retire if he is traded to another team, it might seem like he only has eyes on playing for the Saints.<\/p>\n<p>So, dealing him could be rather problematic for New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the final year of his contract, it does feel like this could be Kamara&#8217;s last in New Orleans, so it makes sense that if the Saints don&#8217;t have plans for him after 2026, they would try to get something in return for him.<\/p>\n<p>But Kamara&#8217;s retirement reports might put a spanner in the works of that plan.<\/p>\n<p>So right now, Kamara&#8217;s future is a fascinating watch because last season, his touches went down, and now with Etienne in the picture, they could go down even further.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints under Kellen Moore showed improvement down the stretch last season, and now, looking toward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128206,"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-858020","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\/116361175383390098","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858020","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=858020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}