Mark Ingram consent to four-year, $16M bargain, Saints.

Mark Ingram will stay concealed in the New Orleans backfield for quite a long time to come.

NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Saturday that the Saints have arrived at a concurrence with the hard-charging running back on a four-year bargain worth $16 million, as indicated by a source

educated of the circumstance. Paragons of piety mentor Sean Payton stressed for the current week that Ingram was "somebody that we need to keep," particularly in the wake of opening up top room with the arrival of individual runner Pierre Thomas. 

By declining to release Ingram to market, the Saints have held one of their most entrancing youthful players. After a moderate begin to his NFL vocation, Ingram last season looked each bit like a first-round determination, demonstrating uncommon power and dangerousness inside the group's zone-blocking plan. The one-cut framework worked for Ingram: He indicated enhanced persistence in scrambling for 964 yards and nine touchdowns at 4.3 yards every cut. 

The new arrangement for Ingram takes an alternate huge name runner off the business sector only three days in front of Tuesday's free-office dispatch. The Saints realized that the 25-year-old back would draw a lot of enthusiasm from opponent squads, including the Philadelphia Eagles. 

Positioned as our second-best free-specialists runner before Saturday's arrangement went down, Ingram approaches as a superior workhorse alternative than Ryan Mathews, C.J. Spiller or a maturing Frank Gore. New Orleans wasn't keen on getting Ingram's fifth-year alternative last offseason, yet all that we saw in 2014 proposes an ability player thundering into the prime of his vocation. 

The cash is reasonable. No one will verge on making the sort of scratch Marshawn Lynch is situated to gain as a component of two-year augmentation with the Seahawks that will pay him $31 million through the following three seasons. Still, Ingram's agreement numbers serve as a closer close estimation of what the current year's yield of open-business backs can indicate. 

Money aside, the top tested Saints merit credit for putting a ring on the finger of one of their most gifted players.