Sources: Kamara reworks deal to stay with Saints
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- Alvin Kamara will play for the Saints in 2026 on a reworked contract after initially being set to make up to $11.5 million in base salary this season, with $3 million of that salary already guaranteed last year.
- The Saints signed former Jacksonville Jaguars running back Travis Etienne Jr. to a four-year deal worth more than $12 million per year in the first three years of the deal in March.
- Combined, Etienne's and Kamara's contracts devoted $21 million in cap space to the Saints' seven running backs — the most in the NFL before Kamara's revised deal.
- Kamara, who turns 31 before training camp begins later this month, posted career lows in rushing yards (471), receiving yards (186) and total touchdowns (1) last season and finished both of the past two seasons with injuries.
- Terron Armstead, the former Saints offensive tackle, first reported the news on his podcast "The Set," saying Kamara is "hungry" and "pissed off" at the narrative that his career is declining: "He has only done elite and exceptional work throughout his entire career."
Why it matters: The Saints retain their franchise running back while carrying the NFL's most expensive RB room — $21 million in cap space devoted to seven backs — and Kamara enters 2026, per Armstead's podcast, openly motivated to disprove the decline narrative after career-low production in an injury-shortened 2025.
