Did Derek Carr want to split from the Saints before his shocking retirement announcement earlier this month? That’s a theory being floated in a new ESPN report published Friday, which alleged the 34-year-old quarterback “was open to playing for a new team,

Derek Carr retired from the NFL last week but apparently not before he looked for an exit out of New Orleans to continue his career.

Several weeks before he announced his retirement, then-New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr was putting out feelers to other NFL teams, ESPN reported Friday.