{"id":312585,"date":"2025-11-25T10:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/312585\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:47:09","slug":"brandin-cooks-clears-waivers-nbc-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/312585\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandin Cooks clears waivers – NBC Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Saints didn\u2019t need to beef up receiver Brandin Cooks\u2019s contract, after all.<\/p>\n

The original terms \u2014 $420,000 for the rest of the season and $1.69 million fully guaranteed in 2026 \u2014 were enough to keep any of the other teams from claiming Cooks on waivers. Released Saturday, Cooks cleared waivers on Monday.<\/p>\n

That still doesn\u2019t end the issue, even if the league has ignored repeated requests for information\/clarification about the application (or not) of rules that would seem to prevent<\/a> the Saints from waiving Cooks after the recent effort to deter a waivers claim by making his full 2026 salary ($5.94 million) fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n

The Saints, after revising the Cooks contract to inflate the 2026 guarantee (while also giving themselves a window for avoiding any of it), re-revised the deal to restore the original 2026 guarantee. Relevant rules seem to indicate that the rescinded effort to deter a waivers claim prevented Cooks from being waived.<\/p>\n

The league nevertheless allowed the Saints to waive Cooks.<\/p>\n

The issue continues to be a hot topic among various NFL teams. It continues to be largely ignored by the media. And by the league office.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve made four requests. I usually quit after three. Maybe I\u2019ll forget to send a fifth. They\u2019re probably hoping that\u2019ll happen.<\/p>\n

Cooks is now eligible to sign with any team. It\u2019s believed that, all along, he has had one specific team in mind. A team that he possibly has been negotiating with, in violation (by the team) of the tampering rules.<\/p>\n

Regardless, he can sign with that team (or any other) at any time \u2014 in exchange for more than $2.11 million he gave up in exchange for his freedom from the Saints. It\u2019s hard to imagine that Cooks gave up that bird in the hand without having a contender in the bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saints didn\u2019t need to beef up receiver Brandin Cooks\u2019s contract, after all. The original terms \u2014 $420,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-312585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}