thinking there\u2019s a beef or something<\/a> when moves like this happen,\u201d Kamara said. \u201cIt\u2019s like, shoot, I couldn\u2019t be happier. One, my boy got paid, and two, ain\u2019t nothing but some help in the backfield. That\u2019s the name of the game. One person can\u2019t do it by themselves. I\u2019m cool with it. Whichever direction that we can take it, I\u2019m with it. I haven\u2019t had too much a chance to talk to him, but definitely excited that he\u2019s got a fleur-de-lis on his helmet, and he got paid.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Saints tweaked Kamara\u2019s contract earlier this offseason making it easier to trade him or release him after June 1. That is what has prompted speculation about Kamara\u2019s future, with the Saints committing only to the fact that Kamara is currently on the roster.<\/p>\n
Kamara is scheduled to count $10.45 million against the salary cap.<\/p>\n
He might have to take a pay cut to stay with the team that drafted him in 2017, but it sounds like a 10th season in New Orleans is what he wants.<\/p>\n
Kamara said he watched Etienne in Jacksonville and is \u201cexcited to see what we can do together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kamara and Mark Ingram formed a potent one-two punch for four seasons. In 2017-18, they combined for 3,380 rushing yards and 40 rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s what we trying to find. Me and Mark set the bar very high. That\u2019s what efficiency looks like on a very high level,\u201d Kamara said. \u201cI\u2019m 100 percent for it. If that\u2019s what direction we\u2019re going in, I\u2019m with it. I think we can get there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alvin Kamara didn\u2019t specifically address his plans for next season during an interview on Terron Armstead\u2019s podcast The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-624081","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\/624081","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=624081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}