If former Raiders and Saints quarterback Derek Carr wants to play again, there are teams interested in his services. But so far, he hasn\u2019t heard an offer intriguing enough for him to accept.<\/p>\n
Carr said on NFL Network today that teams have contacted him about potentially coming out of retirement, and he isn\u2019t ruling it out. Carr did not name those teams, but if they didn\u2019t get permission from the Saints first, they were violating the NFL\u2019s tampering rules. Carr was still under contract with the Saints when he retired, and other teams can\u2019t contact him without the Saints\u2019 permission. The Saints would also likely want trade compensation from any team that wanted Carr.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never say never,\u201d Carr said. \u201cIt would take a special situation. There were multiple teams that reached out to me this offseason. I won\u2019t say who or how, but they reached out and were gauging my interest on what I wanted to do. They were good, solid football teams.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carr said he will only return if a Super Bowl contender needs him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just at the point where I just want to win. I want to win. So if I were to do it, it would have to be a special team that maybe lost somebody or needed somebody, but even then, it\u2019s not guaranteed,\u201d Carr said. \u201cI\u2019m having too much fun hanging out with my wife, hanging out with my kids, and trying to get good at golf. So it would take a special deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Carr announced his retirement last year, he and the Saints both said his injured shoulder would have hampered his ability to keep playing. But Carr now says that if the right team calls at the right time, he\u2019ll be in shape and ready to play \u2014 even if he doesn\u2019t anticipate that happening.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m always training,\u201d Carr said. \u201cI\u2019ll be in shape and ready, but probably not. I\u2019ll probably be just coaching my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old Carr was drafted by the Raiders in 2014, played nine seasons with them, and then played his final two seasons with the Saints in 2023 and 2024. Now, after a year out of football, he\u2019s not ruling out playing for a third team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If former Raiders and Saints quarterback Derek Carr wants to play again, there are teams interested in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-754953","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\/754953","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=754953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}