Running Back · New Orleans Saints

Alvin Kamara

No. 41 · 10th season

Kamara left $5.5 million on the table to stay home

Some decisions look like business. This one looked like something else.

Kamara has spent years as the heartbeat of the New Orleans Saints — the kind of player whose name and city have become hard to separate in fans' minds. Running backs don't usually get to choose where they age; the market tends to make that choice for them.

But Kamara agreed to take $5.5 million less than he was owed to stay in New Orleans. He said plainly that New Orleans is where he wanted to be.

That's the part that lands. The money is real — $5.5 million is not a rounding error — and he walked away from it anyway. For a running back, in a league that rarely rewards that position with long-term loyalty, that is a specific kind of statement.

Now the question is what he does with the years he chose to stay for.

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