The New Orleans Saints and free agent quarterback Jameis Winston agreed to terms on a one-year contract, the team announced Tuesday afternoon. Winston, the former first-overall draft pick by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is now the fourth passer in the Saints quarterbacks room along with Drew Brees, Taysom Hill, and seventh-round draft prospect Tommy Stevens.
It’ll be interesting to see what kind of salary Winston agreed to in light of what the Saints have paid their other backup quarterbacks. Hill’s new contract extension pays out $10.5 million annually, and Teddy Bridgewater earned just $7.25 million last season as the NFL’s highest-paid second-string passer.
We’ll get an idea of how this impacts the Saints salary cap situation once more details are reported. New Orleans often uses automatically-voided years in its free agent contracts to help maneuver around the salary cap, so it’s possible their deal with Winston might be more complex than it first appears.
