KENNER, La. (AP) — The New Orleans Saints have made a contract offer to career franchise sack leader Cameron Jordan and want the 36-year-old 15-year veteran back on the team, general manager Mickey Loomis said Monday.
Speaking before a charity golf event benefitting the Saints Hall of Fame, Loomis did not go into detail about the value of the offer, and also commented on the uncertain status of Saints veteran running back Alvin Kamara and versatile reserve quarterback and special teams leader Taysom Hill.
Jordan and Hill played out their most recent Saints contracts last season, while Kamara still has another year left — unless the Saints choose to cut or trade him.
Jordan was a first-round draft choice by the Saints in 2011 and is now the career sack leader with 132. Last season, Jordan had 10 1/2 sacks, more than his previous two seasons combined, hitting the double-digit mark for the first time since his 12 1/2 sacks in 2021.
“Obviously, he’s meant a lot to this organization for a long time," said Saints second-year coach Kellen Moore, who also attended the golf outing at Chateau Golf & Country Club. "Last year he was a big-time leader for our program. So, obviously, would love to have him.”
Kamara, who'll be 31 next season and has spent all of his nine NFL seasons in New Orleans, remains under contract with the Saints. But the club's plans for him have been in doubt since New Orleans signed free-agent running back Travis Etienne — a move giving them two running backs who are each scheduled to be paid in the range of $12 million in 2026.
“We’re just trying to see how he’s going to fit on our roster," Loomis said. “Obviously there’s a resource management element to it. We’ll get to that over the next week or two.”
Struggling through a knee injury last season, Kamara posted career lows in games played (11), yards and touchdowns rushing with 471 and 1, and yards and touchdowns receiving (186 and 0).
Loomis said Kamara doesn't “currently” have a decision to make on proposed contract changes, but acknowledged that his contract is part of front office discussions regarding the NFL salary cap.
The 35-year-old Hill, who returned last season from a major 2024 knee injury, is a free agent who has yet to announce whether he'll return, retire, or sign somewhere else. While he posted relatively modest numbers last season, he accounted for more than 100 yards and a touchdown in a game that also made him the first player in the Super Bowl era to have more than 1,000 career yards passing, rushing and receiving.
A New Orleans-area home where Hill lived last season is listed for sale. Meanwhile, former Saints coach Sean Payton — who oversaw Hill's development from a young reserve QB to a dynamic, multi-position player — is now coaching in Denver, the closest NFL city to Hill's native Idaho.
Loomis said the Saints have not yet offered a new contract to Hill, but didn't rule it out.
"That’s more discussion that Taysom and I probably have to have,” said Loomis, who also dismissed the notion that Hill's and Jordan's chances of returning to New Orleans diminish the longer they go without re-signing.
"Those guys have earned the right for self-determination,” Loomis said. “We're not going to put any deadlines on anything.”
Saints quarterback Tyler Shough said having one NFL season as Hill's teammate was valuable to him, in no small part because Hill was able to pass along what he'd learned from Hall of Fame former Saints QB Drew Brees.
“I love Taysom,” Shough said. “Obviously, I looked up to Drew coming up. ... (Hill) was so big for me to be able to kind of talk to.”
Shough also indicated that he didn't expect Hill to retire.
“He's going to dominate wherever he's at," Shough said. "And I understand it's a unique situation for him.”
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FILE - New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan (94) is interviewed by WWL Radio after an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Dec. 21, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Tyler Kaufman, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Commuters in New York City’s suburbs were navigating a gauntlet of car, bus and subway routes to get to and from work Monday after a labor strike shut down the Long Island Rail Road, the busiest commuter rail system in the country.
Unions representing rail workers and the Metropolitan Transportation Agency, which runs the railroad, continued negotiating Monday after failing to reach agreement through the weekend despite pressure from the National Mediation Board and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Katie Dolgow, who teaches first graders in Manhattan, said it had already taken her an hour just to travel from Long Island to Queens as more commuters turned to the region's already notoriously gridlocked roads. But her big concern was going home.
“I have to get my son at daycare by 5:30. It's going to take me longer getting home. I'm a teacher, I'm going to have to leave work at 1:30,” she said.
Unionized workers were out early picketing in front of major LIRR hubs, chanting slogans and holding up signs that read: “No contract. No work,” and “Equal work. Equal pay.”
“We're just asking for a reasonable cost of living adjustment on our wages,” Byron Lee, a locomotive engineer, said outside Penn Station in midtown Manhattan. “People think that we don't deserve it.”
The LIRR serves hundreds of thousands of commuters who live along a 118-mile-long (190-kilometer-long) land mass that includes Brooklyn and Queens in New York City and the Hamptons, a summertime playground for the rich and famous.
The strike started at 12:01 a.m. Saturday after five unions representing about half the rail system's workforce walked off the job. It's the first walkout for the LIRR since a two-day strike in 1994.
The unions, which represent locomotive engineers, machinists, signalmen and others, have said more substantial raises are warranted to help workers keep up with inflation and rising living costs. The MTA has said the unions’ initial demands to raise salaries would result in large fare increases and be disproportionate to other unionized workers’ pay.
“With the rate of inflation nationally, and especially in this New York area, everybody feels it,” said James Louis, vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, on Monday. “We’re just trying to keep their heads above water. We’re not asking for anything outrageous.”
The unions and the MTA have been negotiating a new contract since 2023, but talks have stalled over salaries and healthcare.
The Trump administration got involved in September, a move that temporarily averted a strike. But months still passed without a deal.
Hochul said Sunday that workers would lose every dollar they would gain with a new contract by remaining on strike.
MTA Chairman Janno Lieber said negotiations were “headed in a positive direction” Monday morning as he dangled the prospect of LIRR service resuming Tuesday commute if a deal was reached soon.
By the afternoon, however, both sides conceded discussions were progressing slowly.
Gary Dellaverson, the MTA’s chief negotiator, on Monday afternoon said rail system officials were perhaps “overly optimistic” they could get a deal done. He said no new proposals were discussed Monday morning before union officials took a lengthy break until midafternoon.
“We continue to have optimism that we can get this done, but it’s not at the same level,” Dellaverson said outside MTA headquarters in lower Manhattan, where the two sides have been meeting. “The unions have shown us they have no sense of urgency to get this resolved.”
Ridership has been lighter than expected on the free but limited shuttle buses the MTA provided from a handful of locations on Long Island to New York City subway stations.
Officials had implored the roughly 250,000 riders who normally use the train system each weekday to work from home rather than commute into the city, if possible.
During the morning commute, more than 2,000 people took advantage of the shuttle service, the agency said. It had prepared for about 13,000 riders.
The buses are also being offered for the evening rush hour and are geared toward essential workers and those who can't telecommute.
Molloy University and Stony Brook University on Long Island are both set to hold commencements Monday.
Officials at Stony Brook urged graduates and guests to carpool where possible as the state university's ceremony was slated to start during the afternoon rush hour.
The first impacts of the walkout were felt over the weekend as baseball fans had to find other ways to get to Citi Field in Queens to see the New York Mets take on their crosstown rivals the New York Yankees.
If the strike stretches into Tuesday, basketball fans looking to catch the New York Knicks continue their playoff run could also run into problems. Madison Square Garden, where the Knicks play their home games, is located directly above the railroad’s Penn Station hub in Manhattan.
Hochul stopped by MTA headquarters in lower Manhattan on Monday morning as negotiations were underway, according to her office. The governor was briefed on the status of talks as well as the morning commute.
“She is pleased that the unions accepted her invitation to return to the table and encourages both parties to continue negotiating in good faith,” said Sean Butler, a Hochul spokesperson.
The Democrat, who is up for reelection this year, has blamed President Donald Trump’s administration for cutting mediation short in September and pushing the unions toward a strike.
McCormack reported from Concord, New Hampshire. Associated Press writers Ted Shaffrey and Joseph Frederick in New York contributed.
Signs for free Long Island Rail Road shuttle buses hang at the Howard Beach–JFK Airport station as Long Island Rail Road workers enter the third day of their strike, Monday, May 18, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Long Island Rail Road workers walk on the picket line outside of Penn Station on the third day of their strike, Monday, May 18, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
A pedestrian walks along an empty track at Mineola train station as Long Island Rail Road workers strike, Monday, May 18, 2026, in Mineola, N.Y. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Tracks are empty at Mineola train station as Long Island Rail Road workers enter the third day of their strike, Monday, May 18, 2026, in Mineola, N.Y. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
People exit and board buses at the Mineola train station as Long Island Rail Road workers enter the third day of their strike, Monday, May 18, 2026, in Mineola, N.Y. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Commuters sit on a shuttle bus as Long Island Rail Road workers strike, Monday, May 18, 2026, in Mineola, N.Y. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Visitors look out at the trains at the West Side Yard from the Vessel on the first day of a Long Island Rail Road workers' strike, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Tracks are empty at Mineola train station as Long Island Rail Road workers enter the third day of their strike, Monday, May 18, 2026, in Mineola, N.Y. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
