{"id":87560,"date":"2025-05-29T08:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/87560\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T08:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:57:15","slug":"saints-must-work-on-contract-extension-with-wr-chris-olave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/87560\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints must work on contract extension with WR Chris Olave"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Orleans Saints<\/a> are undergoing a bit of a rebuild with a new head coach and major changes at quarterback, so not everyone on the current roster is safe heading into the future. There is at least one player that deserves a contract extension, though.<\/p>\n

CBS Sports’ Tyler Sullivan<\/a> recently laid out each team’s top extension candidate and the decision was easy for the Saints: wide receiver Chris Olave. Olave was the No. 11 overall selection in the 2022 NFL draft and has proven that to be a solid place for him to fall since that draft. When he is on the field, he has constantly flashed superstar potential.<\/p>\n

It’s fair to say that 2024 was a year to forget, even before he was lost for the season just under half way through. It was a down year across the board, so it also wouldn’t be fair to put all the blame on him. The 24-year-old had 159 catches for 2,165 yards and nine touchdowns over his first two seasons. He had 32 catches for 400 yards and a score in the eight games he appeared in last season.<\/p>\n

Now that he is healthy again, it is clear that he is the top option in the offense and he has the chance to earn a lot of money if he has a good year with the young quarterback room in New Orleans. His fifth-year option has already been picked up<\/a>, but the Saints should be working on a longer-term extension past the 2026 campaign. It’s important to give their young quarterbacks targets that can get open, Olave is that and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints are undergoing a bit of a rebuild with a new head coach and major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2076],"tags":[247,265,1596,6000,7,248,267,206,896,55,2572,2571,88,6,6833,676,245,537,530,397,9,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-87560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-chris","11":"tag-chris-olave","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-national","14":"tag-national-sports","15":"tag-new","16":"tag-new-orleans","17":"tag-new-orleans-saints","18":"tag-neworleans","19":"tag-neworleanssaints","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-olave","23":"tag-orleans","24":"tag-overall","25":"tag-overall-positive","26":"tag-positive","27":"tag-saints","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114590295237180414","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87560","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=87560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}