Many of the Free Agency expected the New Orleans Saints to be active, but did not do any massive obligations. In reality, the team was actually very active in the free agency and was in the race for many well -known players. The saints have certainly done one of these shops Justin Reid, which was a massive surprise and a lot. They were also in the race for WR Cooper Kupp, but with the years/money he wanted, the saints were not ready to risk so much for an aging recipient. There was another top player who was New Orleans in New Orleans, and the deal was on the finish line. Cornerback Charvarius Ward should be the next CB of the next saint, but another team got in.
Ward's contract with the Indianapolis Colts is 3 years, up to $ 60 million, with $ 35 million guaranteed. If the saints had completed this deal, I doubt that this was the contract they offered. The Colts offered a deal that he had to accept, so I would think that the saints had offered around 15 million US dollars a year for three years. Not to what the Colts was offered was a clever step of the saint, since it would have been far too much money at this point to give it.
If Ward had been signed by the saints, New Orleans would have had a really good Cornerback room. The problem is that the Justin Reid deal would probably not have happened and how good the value of this contract was, the Ward deal would have been a mistake. In addition, the saints were able to improve the cornerback space by signing Isaac Yiadom, and now Cornerback is not a massive need, although a further addition would be intelligent.
While the saints missed another large -named Free Agent, like the Cooper Kupp situation, it might be a better one, although Ward is a very talented player.