The New Orleans Saints have ended their operation by cornerback Bradley Roby, sending a 2022 third-round draft pick and a 2023 conditional pick to the Houston Texans, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
In order to facilitate trade with the Saints, the Texans converted $ 7.6 million of Roby’s base salary into a signing bonus, a source told ESPN’s Field Yates. When Roby officially moves to New Orleans, his base salary for 2021 is now $ 1,862,645, which is part of the Saints ’salary cap.
Roby was the coach of the first round of the Denver Broncos in 2014. He spent the last two years in Houston and has started 49 career games with 10 interceptions.
Roby, 29, enters the second year of a three-year, $ 31.5 million extension he signed with the Texans last year. He will miss the first game of the season, however, as part of a six-game suspension that began in 2020 to violate NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances.
The Saints have identified the corner as a “mandatory” place since they released former Marxist Janoris Jenkins in March as part of a massive wage cap debugging and then lost a potential initial candidate, Patrick Robinson, with a withdrawal surprise at the beginning of training. camp. They even tried to change about 20 places in the NFL draft to get the best prospects Jaycee Horn or Pat Surtain II.
New Orleans signed veteran Desmond Trufant on Monday to compete with Ken Crawley and rookie Paulson Adebo for the top starting corner against Bowler Marshon Lattimore. However, now Roby becomes the leader in blocking this job after his suspension.
ESPN’s Mike Triplett contributed to this report.