Saints Hosting RB Kareem Hunt For Visit

According to Jeremy Fowler, the Saints are hosting veteran RB Kareem Hunt for a free agent visit. 

Hunt would augment the Saints’ backfield even further. New Orleans won’t have RB Alvin Kamara for the first three games of the season, though they also signed RB Jamaal Williams this offseason and drafted RB Kendre Miller in the third round. Miller has been rehabbing an injury and coming along slowly, however. 

This is the first major reported interest in Hunt, who’s had a quiet market this offseason. 

Hunt, 27, is a former third-round pick of the Chiefs back in 2017. He was in the second year of his four-year, $3.263-million contract and set to make base salaries of $555,000 and $645,000 over the next two years of the agreement when the Chiefs waived him in December following video of him kicking a woman.

The Browns elected to sign Hunt to a one-year contract worth over $1 million, not factoring in a suspension. Hunt forfeited $303,529 of his $645,000 base salary with his eight-game suspension, with a chance to earn $200,000 in per-game roster bonuses upon return.

Hunt re-signed with Cleveland as a restricted free agent heading into 2020. He was set to make $3.27 million under the second-round tender before becoming an unrestricted free agent in 2021 when he signed a two-year, $13.5 million extension before the start of the season.

Hunt is an unrestricted free agent this offseason. 

In 2022, Hunt appeared in all 17 games for the Browns and rushed for 468 yards on 123 carries (3.8 YPC) to go along with 35 receptions for 210 yards receiving and four total touchdowns.

We have him included in our Top 100 Available 2023 NFL Free Agents list.