Tretter has been done in by three serious injuries, but I am not sure he could be called injury prone. He had a freak accident during a fumble drill in offseason camp his rookie year. He got rolled into this year at Atlanta. His other bad injury was in a preseason game, another knee injury.
Unless those knees are toast, that seems like luck of the draw. So by that logic, I want Tretter signed over Lang. And with Lang having no communication from the team, that still seems to be the Packers way of thinking too. Its not a perfect fit, since if Lang doesn't come back, right guard is wide open.
Thompson isn't clairvoyant, he played the odds with Sitton and it looked like a good bet when he got hurt this year and Taylor did not washout. I think he is making the same calculation here.
As for Perry, here are the top DEs by paycheck at SpotTrac:
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Rank Name AverageSal ApproxValue
1 M Wilkerson $18,000,000 60
2 O Vernon $16,000,000 39
3 J.J. Watt $14,500,000 88
4 E Ansah $12,734,000 32
5 Cam Jordan $12,047,000 42
6 M Bennett $11,268,750 20
7 Rob Quinn $10,750,334 41
8 Mike Daniels $10,400,000 27
9 Cam Heyward $10,400,000 27
Approximate Value is from Pro Football Reference and in this list covers first five years of careers since 2008. Nick Perry's approx. value is 16. He got 6 of that last year.
He might get stupid money (largely dependent on who doesn't sign or get tendered just prior to FA opening) but its not going to be more than $10.7 mil per year unless he is the only one left standing.