The New Orleans Saints will ask Jonathan Vilma and Will Smith to restructure their current deals with the team, according to sources.

Smith is due $10.15 million for 2013, while Vilma is owed $6 million in the final year of his deal.

The Saints were $13.5 million over the cap as of Friday.

Sean Payton believes Jonathan Vilma will have a role in the New Orleans Saints' 3-4 defense.

Payton said he can see Vilma playing an outside linebacker spot in the new 3-4 scheme.

"Yeah, I don't think anyone wants to place him over that guard bubble and have to take on that block," Payton said. "And I think he's a guy that runs to the ball and has great vision, very instinctual football player. I think you take some of that away if all of a sudden he's playing over an uncovered guard and now his size becomes an issue.

"A lot of things may concern you with a player change. So, he'll play over on that weakside position and I that will be very similar to what he did this past year. Curtis Lofton, who's a little heavier, will play on that strong inside Mike position. So I think that part of it for those two guys transition pretty well."

Vilma is scheduled to make $4.8 million in base salary and hold a salary cap figure of $8.6 million.

The New Orleans Saints have denied a report that Rob Ryan will need permission to speak to the media as part of his contract.

"Report that Rob Ryan needs to get my OK before speaking to media is 100% false- he like all of our coaches, follow norm league media rules," Saints' VP of communication Greg Bensel said via Twitter.

NFL rules require assistant coaches to be made available to the media at certain times and for coordinators to be made available at least once a week during the season.

The New Orleans Saints have hired Rob Ryan as defensive coordinator.

Ryan had previously been with the Dallas Cowboys and it briefly appeared he would take a job this offseason with the St. Louis Rams.

Ryan will implement a 3-4 defense for the Saints.

Todd Grantham has withdrawn his name from consideration for the defensive coordinator position of the New Orleans Saints.

Sean Payton has also interviewed Rob Ryan for the position.

"I want to thank Sean Payton and the New Orleans Saints organization for the opportunity to interview and get to know them," Grantham said in a statement Friday night. "They are a first-class organization in every respect. As I said Wednesday, Georgia is a great place, my family loves it here, and I do as well."

The NFL has reinstated Gregg Williams after suspending him for his role in the Saints' bounty scandal, and the Titans have added him to their coaching staff as a senior assistant for its defense.

The league ended Williams' indefinite suspension Thursday and approved the Titans' one-year contract with Williams. 

The New Orleans Saints will interview two to four candidates for its defensive coordinator vacancy.

The Saints will interview Rob Ryan and Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham this week.