{"id":909496,"date":"2026-06-04T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/909496\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:30:18","slug":"saints-wr-chris-olave-opens-up-amid-contract-rumblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/909496\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints WR Chris Olave opens up amid contract rumblings"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Saints<\/a> wide receiver Chris Olave<\/a> is entering the fifth season of his NFL career, and he is hoping to get a nice contract in the near future. <\/p>\n

While Olave is not holding out at the moment, the former Ohio State star is optimistic that a new deal will be done by the time training camp begins. <\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like we\u2019re going to come down to that before training camp,\u201d Olave said, via Jeff Nowak of Audacy WWL<\/a>. \u201cI hope we do, so we don\u2019t affect the chemistry and stuff going into training camp, but I think it\u2019s going to get done soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saints GM Mickey Loomis also said they hope to have something done sooner rather than later, but he also said, \u201cWe\u2019re not there yet.\u201d <\/p>\n

Olave was selected 11th overall in 2022, and he has put together three 1,000-yard seasons in four years. In 2024, Olave dealt with injuries and concussions, forcing him to play just eight games, although he still had 32 catches for 400 yards and a score. <\/p>\n

In 2025, Olave put up career-best numbers with 100 receptions on 156 targets, 1,163 yards, and nine touchdowns, all of which were career-highs. <\/p>\n

Olave\u2019s name came up in trade rumors prior to the 2025 season, although head coach Kellen Moore said not to worry about that. <\/a><\/p>\n

Olave is currently playing the fifth year of his deal after the Saints exercised his option, but he is hoping to cash in big, especially after seeing the $141 million deal the Atlanta Falcons shelled out to Drake London<\/a><\/a><\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints wide receiver Chris Olave is entering the fifth season of his NFL career, and he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[6000,7,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":["post-909496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-saints","tag-chris-olave","tag-football","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanssaints","tag-nfl","tag-saints"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116690198440876156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909496","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=909496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}