{"id":496782,"date":"2026-03-01T03:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496782\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:31:10","slug":"saints-havent-heard-about-a-possible-derek-carr-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496782\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints haven&#8217;t heard about a possible Derek Carr trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, quarterback Derek Carr made it clear that he\u2019d end his one-year retirement to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/derek-carr-i-would-play-again-for-a-team-with-a-chance-to-win-a-super-bowl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">play for a Super Bowl contender<\/a>. If a team is interested in Carr, however, that team has yet to commence the process of acquiring his contractual rights.<\/p>\n<p>Carr <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/saints-still-control-derek-carrs-contractual-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">remains on the Saints\u2019 reserve-retired list<\/a>. Any team that wants him will have to work out a trade with the Saints.<\/p>\n<p>To date, the Saints have not heard (we\u2019re told) from any team that wants to make a deal for Carr.<\/p>\n<p>Most Super Bowl contenders are Super Bowl contenders because they have a starting quarterback in place. Carr\u2019s best play, if he wants to have a chance to chase a Super Bowl, would be to wait for a season-ending injury to a quarterback playing for a contender, and then to hope that team wants to sign him.<\/p>\n<p>And if no option emerges before the trade deadline, Carr may need to ask the Saints to release his rights, which would position him to sign with someone as a free agent. After the window closes for making trades, Carr would have to clear waivers before joining a contender that suddenly needs a new quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>An eleven-year veteran and a four-time Pro Bowler, Carr has authored only two seasons that resulted in playoff berths. He missed the wild-card game in 2016 after suffering a late-season leg fracture. In 2021, the Raiders lost to the Bengals in the opening round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, quarterback Derek Carr made it clear that he\u2019d end his one-year retirement to play for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-496782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496782","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=496782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}