Saints Were Close to Acquiring Hunter Renfrow

The Saints and Raiders reportedly couldn't agree on the details that would have sent Hunter Renfrow to New Orleans.

We always hear about the 'almost' trades that happen after the NFL deadline, especially when it comes to the Saints. Here's one that made sense, but didn't come together involving Raiders wide receiver Hunter Renfrow according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.

Rapoport said on air, "The only one I thought might happen was Hunter Renfrow going to the Saints. Just so much contractual stuff that they had to work out. Who was going to pay his salary. Didn't get it done by yesterday. Just in the end, just did not end up happening."

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Saints general manager Mickey Loomis told WWL's Mike Hoss that the team was a buyer, not seller.

“We talked to a couple of teams about a couple of things, more in the acquisition area as opposed to trading somebody. We didn’t really talk about trading anyone from our team. We did talk to a couple teams about an acquisition, but I wouldn’t say it ever got really serious.”

Renfrow's contract is a bit interesting, as he'll command a $13.71 million cap hit next season. There's also some other items in there that obviously made it challenging. It's something to monitor in the offseason with Derek Carr being at the helm. The Raiders are clearly going through it right now after firing both their head coach and general manager.

In the meantime, New Orleans will have to keep things going with what they have, but Renfrow could have helped out in several ways and been a favorite target of Carr's. We'll never see it in 2023, however.