The Saints have trimmed their quarterback depth chart. The team announced on Friday that veteran Nathan Peterman has been released. 
Peterman has been in the NFL since 2017, but he has made just 15 appearances in his career. Four his five starts came during his first two Bills campaigns, and he has bounced on and off the practice squads of the Raiders and Bills since then.
The 30-year-old joined the Saints in March to compete for a spot on the 53-man roster. New Orleans already has Derek Carr in place as the starter along with 2023 fourth-rounder Jake Haener and fifth-round rookie Spencer Rattler, however. The latter two have spent the offseason battling for the QB2 role, and that competition will no doubt continue through the rest of training camp and into the preseason. As a vested veteran, Peterman will not be subject to waivers.
The former fifth-rounder will be able to join a new team in a bid to latch onto a roster spot during cutdowns at the end of the summer. He will otherwise be a candidate for taxi squad spot upon a potential return to New Orleans. Teams will have unlimited elevations for signal-callers to dress as their emergency No. 3 quarterback in 2024. The runner-up in the Haener-Rattler competition will of course be a strong candidate to serve in that capacity, though.
To fill the roster spot created by Peterman’s release – a move which will create a dead money charge of $80K, the guaranteed figure in his veteran minimum pact – the Saints signed wideout Samson Nacua. The brother of last year’s Offensive Rookie of the Year runner-up Puka Nacua, Samson initially entered the NFL as a Colts UDFA in 2022. He failed to make the roster and spent the past two seasons playing spring football in the USFL and UFL. Now, the 26-year-old will attempt to carve out a depth spot in New Orleans’ WR room.
Peterman seriously must have a great personality to even be sniffing NFL rosters these last few years.
He’s got a great catalog though. Check out his urban sombrero, it’s a best seller.
I prefer the black calf leather jacket favored by the indigenous people of Brooklyn and the Bronx. This coat is soft, yet sturdy, resists staining, especially body fluids including blood. The pockets are deep enough to hide a fairly large pistol, but not big enough to lose a 25, the preferred weapon of these indigenous warriors. The lining is wool and will keep you warm when you’re out in the cold barren country of New Jersey looking for a place to dig some holes to plant a few trees to help the environment. The Guido as we have been calling these for over 50 years is a best seller and quite possibly a requirement if you plan on moving up in your organization, I mean uh family, uh get them before they’re gone.
Or nude pictures of nfl owners or general managers
Peterman is basically a clone of Kenny Pickett. Both such so bad. Bothe keep getting jobs.
I’m no Pickett fan, but he hasn’t been nearly as bad as Peterman.
He’s been worse..
He absolutely has not.
He absolutely has. He’s been given 2 years to start. He followed that with the lowest TD% in NFL history per 250 attempts. The WORST scoring QB of all time. That includes every single bust you can think of. Less than .5 TD’s a game is the most hysterical stat on the face of the Earth. The dudes really bad. He’s not qualified for the NFL.
Peterman has more than three times as many interceptions as touchdowns. Peterman has the same number of career interceptions on less than a quarter of the pass attempts. He’s also completed passes at a much lower rate and fumbled at a much higher rate. Again, I’m no fan of Pickett, but Peterman has obviously been worse.
They are both bottom of the barrel QB’s. Maybe the 2 worst in the whole NFL. And Pickett is the worse of the 2. Peterman played for some of the worst organizations in all of sports (Peyton Manning wouldn’t win in chicago, vegas, or the pre-diggs Bills) . Pickett played for one of the top 5. Was handed the keys with a ton of talent. Issue was HE had no talent whatsoever and should’ve been selling furniture not on commercials for furniture stores…
The Steelers have not had a top five roster these last two years, and Peterman has gotten the vast majority of his playing time with a Bills team that was otherwise pretty decent. They even carried him into the playoffs his first year.
Pickett isn’t one of the bottom two QBs in the NFL and Peterman has no business being on a 53 man roster. You can hate Pickett without being ridiculous. Well, someone can. I’m not sure you can.
I never said a top 5 roster. I said a top 5 organization. But I’ll excuse that.
The Bills in 2017 had :
Charles Clay leading receiver under 600 yards.
Leshaun McCoy was next best receiver at under 500 yards.
Deontae Thompson was their best actual WR, and he had under 450 yards.
2018 they had :
Zay Jones finally hit 600 yards…
Robert Foster over 400….
Next up is Kelvin Benjamin barely cracked 300..
Those teams had a TON of talent right? More than the Steelers had in Picketts tenure??… Didn’t think so.
Pickett is literally a bottom 1 QB in the whole entire league. I don’t hate Pickett. I just realize how bad he is when everyone else doesn’t. He’s trash. Bottom of the barrel. Sh*t scraped off the bottom of a septic tank. A trojan with 100 holes in it is more productive than Pickett. Just ask Zach Gentry, he’s taken Pickett’s wife for a few rides!
As a guy who’s watched Zach Wilson play the last three years, believe me, it gets worse than Pickett.
Not very much… Wilson has double the amount of TDs as Pickett and actually was able to score more than 2 in a game before. Once again the jets are a dumpster fire organization that not even Manning or Rodgers can fix. Had Wilson ended in pgh, he’d still be a starting QB.
Wilson was constantly playing from behind and padded his numbers in garbage time. The Steelers barely threw last year.
Steelers barely threw because Pickett was unable to move the ball…. Evident since as soon as Rudolph stepped in the offense opened up…
Gonna step in and say Jets aren’t a dumpster fire this year. Talented team up and down the roster.
Last July/August everyone said the same thing. Then the 40 year old Rodgers got hurt immediately and it was a dumpster fire… Banking on a 40 year old again (albeit an all time great) is still risky.
TB banked on Brady. That worked out well. Many teams bank on younger QBs like AZ or Cincy,then the QB gets hurt and is out for the year. There isn’t really a playback for that. Carolina is a dumpster fire. Low talent team with an owner no one wants to play for.
Rodgers isnt brady. Brady is one of a kind. An anomaly not the normal.
Any QB can get hurt anytime.
You forget that the bills went to the playoffs that year and Benjamin was rookie of the year and was practically 1k yards per season before coming to the bills. Also the bills went to the playoffs with tyrod taylor as QB (who i find underrated personally) and not known for his passing prowess more running and not giving away the game. All Peterman had to do was not lose the game with McCoy pounding the ball and the defense being one of the better ones.
Also let me ask you this how many qb have more interceptions in half a game than some qbs have in a season. Oh wait Picket only had 4 interceptions last season over 12 games Peterson had 5 in half a game. Interesting.
Its also funny you mention how Picket averaged less than a td a game. Peterson in his 5 starts had 2 tds (in separate games) and 10 interceptions. Basically in 2/3 of his starts he didnt pass a td for your team but gave up the ball twice. I would have to check but he probably given up more tds to the defense than his own team. That doesnt also doesnt include he couldnt even finish the games because he was so bad and getting blown out.
It’s not hard to have only 4 INT when you only throw the ball an average of 2 air yards…. It’s also pretty dang hard to score 13 TDs in TWO WHOLE SEASONS. He was playing. Peterman wasn’t.
Kelvin Benjamin was years from his rookie of the year no one cared about that. The bills were a trash organization who found one lucky year like so many other times in nfl history
lucky year but from that season on only missed the playoffs once with the same head coach who btw is considered a top coach in the nfl on a different team now. How many bad organizations do you know have gone 6 out of 7 years to the playoffs. Shoot sign me up for being a bad organization then.
Regarding Benjamin, he had 1k+ year one with the panthers 950 year 2 with the panthers then about 700 yds split between the bill and panthers where he didnt play the full season even. So yes he was still a good option.
IF Peterson was a decent qb I would expect atleast 1 200 yds game in his what 7 year career? I mean even Kyle Wilson had one in his first game with the Jets and he is god awful on a god awful team. So what is Peterson’s excuse on a playoff team no less. The only time he got close was because the bears started using backups at the end of the game during a blowout lead by someone that became Pickett’s backup Trubisky and he still didnt hit it. Imagine in garbage time against 2nd stringers and not being able to still do anything decent on a playoff making team. Even Tim Freakin Boyle did it as a backup.
Eight years circling the drain in the NFL yet he’s raked in millions. He should run for political office since it’s the next best way to grift a paycheck…
A pox upon the Saints! I hope Nathan gets picked up by a division rival and gives the Bayou boys another good spanking. He put up a 126.7 passer rating the last time he faced New Orleans.
7 for 10 79 yards with 1 TD
Great performance.
Damn thats the greatest QB of our generation and they just released him???
Dudes stats are crazy.
They didnt even let him shine in the preseason!
Nathan “Five Picks” Peterman. Legend.
If he had tried harder he could have tied the all time record of 8. Would have locked up the HOF
The reality of this move shows that Jon Gruden is no longer in a consulting position with the Saints.
“Nathan Peterman” is a fine retort to the argument that Gruden is being blacklisted.
Unless your objective was to self destruct and throw your career away, why would you want to consult with Gruden in the first place?
Jon Gruden did have a successful career as a coach, analyst, and broadcaster. He has a very impressive coaching tree both as an assistant coach and Head Coaches that he has developed.
Jon Gruden also has a lot of respect for Saints QB Derek Carr and was able to get him to perform at a higher level.
He was great on Seinfeld
I was at the Chargers game where he threw 5 interceptions. It was amazing.
Saw Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Godsmack open for Metallica, Monsters of Rock 1988…. all pretty amazing.
Saw Hulk Hogan fire up about 3,000 people without saying a word, had Don Shula yell “F@(k Al Davis” to me, watched Andre Rison catch a touchdown that ricochet off TE Ricky Dudey and had the honor of talking to him about the play years later…… all pretty amazing.
My guess is that you are a Chargers fan that is too young to know Air Coryell. Things that are amazing.