Packers 2022 Free Agency Thread

[Joemailman]

2022 Unrestricted Free Agents (With 2021 cap hit)

Davante Adams 14,500,000
Kevin King 5,000,000
Robert Tonyan 3,384,000
Chandon Sullivan 2,133,000
De'Vondre Campbell 2,000,000
Lucas Patrick 1,487,500
Dennis Kelly 1,325,000
Tyler Lancaster 1,250,000
Corey Bojorquez 1,020,000
Oren Burks 887,889
Isaac Yiadom 830,817
Marquez Valdes-Scantling 669,388
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2022 Restricted Free Agents (With 2021 caphit)

Equanimeous St. Brown 850,000
Allen Lazard 675,000
Yosh Nijman 540,000
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2022 Exclusive Rights Free Agents (with 2021 cap hit)

Malik Taylor 780,000
Randy Ramsey 780,000
Krys Barnes 695,000
Henry Black 695,000
Dominique Dafney 695,000
Chauncey Rivers 660,000
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Other players with significant 2022 cap hit (with cap savings if cut before June 1)

Aaron Rodgers 46,144,157 (19,297,018)
Zadarius Smith 28,130,000 (15,750,000)
David Bakhtiari 22,768,000 (-3,536041)
Kenny Clark 20,650,000 (5,650,000)
Preston Smith 19,750,000 (12,500,000)
Jaire Alexander 13,294,000 (0)
Adrian Amos 11,982,000 (4,654,000)
Randall Cobb 9,641,666 (6,858,332)
Aaron Jones 9,000,000 (-750,000)
Billy Turner 8,971,250 (3,180,000)
Dean Lowry 7,922,000 (3,934,000)

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Douglas should also be on the list. He pretty much earned himself a nice contract for another team next year. The cap can always be cooked, but odds are, Packers won’t pay Douglas when they still have to pay J-Alex.

[Guiness]

Is Valdez-Scantling really just on the last year of his rookie contract? Seems like he's been around longer than that!

I wonder what kind of a payday Campbell is going to command

[Joemailman]

Is Valdez-Scantling really just on the last year of his rookie contract? Seems like he's been around longer than that!

I wonder what kind of a payday Campbell is going to command

Top 10 pay for ILB is in the 9-10 million range. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings...de-linebacker/

Alexander, MVS and St. Brown all came out of 2018 draft. Packers have 5th year option on Alexander because he was 1st round pick.

[smuggler]

Is Campbell just gone? I don't see how he can fairly be paid less than Joe Schobert or Blake Martinez... But I don't see it in the cards for the Packers to be the ones to pay him...

[smuggler]

Unrestricted Free Agents

Davante Adams 14,500,000
Robert Tonyan 3,384,000
De'Vondre Campbell 2,000,000
Corey Bojorquez 1,020,000
Marquez Valdes-Scantling 669,388

Exclusive Rights Free Agents

Krys Barnes

That's a lot of talent to see walk. Didn't even include Lazard, Patrick, or Nijman who are all contributing this season and the latter two are increasing their price tag with each week that goes by.

[run pMc]

Douglas should also be on the list. He pretty much earned himself a nice contract for another team next year. The cap can always be cooked, but odds are, Packers won’t pay Douglas when they still have to pay J-Alex.

Douglas is worth King's salary lol. Agree he's made some money this year.
GB has cooked the cap about as far as they can without shedding a lot of contracts... I assume King, Kelly, Lancaster, Burks, Yiadom won't be back, with Z, Preston and Cobb probably gone as well. It will be all about keeping Adams and squeezing as much out of Rodgers as possible. Rodgers is the 3rd oldest QB in the league, there aren't many older than 35 right now. He's under contract for one more year, but what a year that is on the cap.

If you're on the wrong side of 30 and you don't play QB you probably aren't getting a contract from Gute.

Keeping the ERFA's are no brainers, tendering the RFA's makes sense. Those are all cheap, developing guys... some who are significant contributors.

I'd think they will want MVS, Bojorquez, Tonyan back. They can probably get Sullivan and Patrick back on modest deals.
Campbell likely got himself a hefty payday elsewhere, but ILB market is weird so who knows.

[Freak Out]

Last Dance

[George Cumby]

Last Dance

The numbers are pretty grim.

[Joemailman]

The numbers are pretty grim.

There's a lot they can do though. Take Rodgers. He has a cap hit of 46M next year. One way or the other that won't happen. If they trade him, they save 19M on the cap. If they give him a contract extension, they will knock the cap hit down with a low base salary. I don't think Z will be back. That saves 16M. Cobb will take a big pay cut or be cut. A guy like Amos may get an extension to lower his cap hit in 2022.

They will continue to push money into the next year with there being a salary cap increase in 2023. The cap is expected to be 208M in 2022, 230M in 2023 and 250M in 2024.

[George Cumby]

^Good stuff.

[texaspackerbacker]

There's a lot they can do though. Take Rodgers. He has a cap hit of 46M next year. One way or the other that won't happen. If they trade him, they save 19M on the cap. If they give him a contract extension, they will knock the cap hit down with a low base salary. I don't think Z will be back. That saves 16M. Cobb will take a big pay cut or be cut. A guy like Amos may get an extension to lower his cap hit in 2022.

They will continue to push money into the next year with there being a salary cap increase in 2023. The cap is expected to be 208M in 2022, 230M in 2023 and 250M in 2024.

Absolutely! The panic of some in here is just plain stupid. Everybody worth bringing back will be brought back.

[SudsMcBucky]

Absolutely! The panic of some in here is just plain stupid. Everybody worth bringing back will be brought back.

Nope. ARod is worth bringing back (obviously), but he will not. I really believe he and the front office had a deal before the season began that he would come back for 1 more year if they moved him at the end of it. Unfortunately, the front office fucked up and Rodgers will be gone. Enjoy this year while it's still here.

[Joemailman]

Nope. ARod is worth bringing back (obviously), but he will not. I really believe he and the front office had a deal before the season began that he would come back for 1 more year if they moved him at the end of it. Unfortunately, the front office fucked up and Rodgers will be gone. Enjoy this year while it's still here.

I don't think it's all decided. I think they agreed to trade Rodgers after this year if he wants to leave. But since they renegotiated his contract, Packers have made some moves that Rodgers approved of. Signing Cobb, Mercilus, Douglas. And 2 of the teams Rodgers reportedly would have liked to go to, Denver and Las Vegas, could be undergoing coaching changes after this year. Would Rodgers want to go to a team and have to start over with a new coach at age 39? Now if Rams or 49ers got involved, that could be a factor. If the Packers win the Super Bowl I think Rodgers signs an extension to finish his career in Green Bay.

[call_me_ishmael]

Packers will resign Adams - if he wants to be back and presumably if Aaron is back. The rest of those FAs can go. They will for sure resign the dudes that will make about what they make now like the punter, Sullivan if they want, etc. They can't afford Campbell but they will likely get a nice compensatory pick for a dude they found on the street, nice little win there.