In a pre-draft press conference with local media members on Wednesday, Saints general manager Mickey Loomis didn’t give many details on his future plans with Carr and it wasn’t even clear if Loomis knew the full extent of the veteran quarterback’s injury.
“I get the NFL’s a business,” David said Thursday night on NFL Network. “The Saints need to know if he’s available, and I promise you, there is no one who would want to know that more than Derek. That’s what he’s working through.”
Then, David addressed Derek’s communication with the Saints on his brother’s shoulder injury.
“The Saints have been aware of this shoulder injury since the moment it’s happened,” David said. “Derek really believes that it happened in the game where he broke his wrist.”
Carr fractured his hand on Dec. 8 in a 14-11 win over the New York Giants. The Week 14 injury proved to be season-ending.
“After the adrenaline wears off, you don’t really throw,” David said. “You don’t really throw a ball at game-level tempo after that because he was trying to get back from that injury. So, by the time they were able to go throw the ball again, it was still there, the shoulder was still bothering him, so you start to go through, ‘What do we have to do to get it right?'”
David said his brother’s goal is to be healthy and back on the field by the start of the regular season.
“As a veteran player, that’s what your trying to do,” David said. “You understand, at the same time, there’s a draft and you have to kind of know what’s happening.
“So, trust me. He’s working with the Saints, he’s working with Mickey, they’re trying to figure out the best way forward. Surgery is a possibility, not surgery is a possibility − that’s what Derek would prefer [no surgery]. Let me just rehab this thing, let me get out there and make it go, but you don’t know yet. He’s trying to find the answers, I wish I had them.”
Little more information here from David Carr on Derek Carr since a lot of us are as in the dark as the fans pic.twitter.com/9y7o2fR6R1
— Jane Slater (@SlaterNFL) April 24, 2025
