NFL teams have less than a month until the trade deadline. Come Nov. 4, franchises across the league will have to decide whether they want to move on from a player on the roster or look to risk the future to add help now.
Teams that are likely out of contention could move veteran players with an eye towards the future with more draft capital. New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara could be one of those players and he responded today to rumors that he’d met with general manager Mickey Loomis about teams calling for a potential deal.
‘I don’t know where that came from,’ Kamara said today, per The New Orleans Times-Picayune. ‘But I don’t want to go anywhere and I’ve said it countless times… If I was a [general manager], I guess I would go to the player and say, ‘Hey, we’re trading you, just so you know.’ So if Mickey [Loomis] comes down and says that, I’m going to go drink a piña colada somewhere.’
Kamara leads the team’s rushing attack with 83 carries for 314 yards and a touchdown through the first six games of the season. He’s also fourth on the team with 22 receptions for 122 yards through the air as well.
A third-round pick out of Tennessee in the 2017 NFL Draft, Kamara became the franchise’s all-time leading rusher last season despite never surpassing 1,000 yards in any of his eight seasons in the league. He’s not on pace so far to break that mark in 2025 either but is one of the top running backs in the league in total scrimmage yards.
New Orleans is 1-5 entering Week 7 in coach Kellen Moore’s first season at the helm. They’re on the road for three of the next four games starting Sunday at Chicago.