Either defensive end Cameron Jordan let the cat out of the bag or he feels differently from the New Orleans Saints’ organization about adding a veteran quarterback to the roster.
During a recent appearance in the Up & Adams show with Kay Adams, the veteran edge rusher made it known that he wouldn’t mind seeing a veteran passer in the black and gold. And he has a preference of passer at that: former Saints quarterback Jameis Winston.
“I’m going all-in,” Jordan said. “Jameis as the veteran quarterback. Come on over.”
“Im goin’ all in, Jameis as a veteran QB .. come on over.”
15 year NFL vet @camjordan94 on trading for @Jaboowins.
— Kay Adams (@heykayadams) June 9, 2025
Saints players, coaches and their general manager have all made it known that the team is perfectly comfortable with its young room. But it isn’t hard to imagine that adding some more experience to the room eventually would have its benefits.
“I’m going to recruit a veteran quarterback properly when the time is right,” Jordan told Adams. “And that’s probably going to take all the cap space we have.”
The good news for the Saints and Jordan, who sit with roughly $28 million of effective salary cap space, per OverTheCap.com, is that it is unlikely that signing a quarterback at this point of the offseason just to be a veteran mentor likely won’t cost them their entire savings.
Landing Winston specifically comes with a few challenges. First off, he already has a job for Joe with the New York Giants. He is a part of a crowded room, though. The Giants traded up to draft former Ole Miss passer Jaxson Dart this offseason and also signed veteran passer Russell Wilson.
But Dart could be the reason Winston never departs from the Big Apple.
“So at the Combine they ask about your story,” Dart said in an Overtime interview before the draft. “They’re like, ‘Okay, if you can train with anybody, past or present, who would it be?’ And everyone was saying ‘Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Montana.’ They asked me that question, and I said ‘Jameis Winston.’ I said Jameis. I want to train with Jameis.”
So while Jordan’s idea is one that all of New Orleans would get behind, the likelihood is completely attached to the Giants’ decision to keep or move on from the 2015 first-overall selection.
Veteran passers Joe Flacco and Kirk Cousins were also a part of the conversation. Even former Atlanta Falcons passer Matt Ryan was mentioned as a possible target to pull out of retirement. But to the joy of many Saints fans, Jordan quickly dismissed the idea (along with Cousins) as sacrilegious due to their Falcons ties.
