Packers Offseason/Free Agency Thread

[Joemailman]

Unrestricted Free Agents

TE Tyler Davis

TE Josiah Deguara

RB A.J. Dillon

S Johnathan Ford

OT Yosh Nijman

CB Kelsean Nixon

S Jonathan Owens

G Jon Runyan

S Darnell Savage

S Christian Uphoff

LB Eric Wilson

Restricted/Exclusive-Rights Free Agents

S Zayne Anderson

OT Caleb Jones

WR Bo Melton

S Benny Rapp III

CB Robert Rochell

RB Patrick Taylor

P Daniel Whelan

[Joemailman]

Players with big cap hits who could be cut or have contracts restructured.

David Bakhtiari - Cap hit 40M

Kenny Clark - Cap hit - 27.5M

Aaron Jones - Cap hit 17M

De'vondre Campbell - 14.2M

[sharpe1027]

Deguara has to be their top priority to sign. There will probably be a bidding war for him.

[Tony Oday]

We need a vet, ballhawk Safety.

We need more playmaking ILBs

We need a viable 2nd string RB, I LOVE Dillon as a person but he is not a 2 he is a three. We need another guy to replace Jones when he is hurt.

Fire Joe Barry

[Joemailman]

MLF just finished his season ending PC. Has not met with any of coaches yet. Did not provide a timetable on when any coaching evaluations would take place. Coaches are currently meeting with players.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Unlike Sullivan and Hyde, Nixon is an above average nickel corner and should be re-signed. Plus, he has special teams value.

Clark’s production ain’t worthy of the frogskins he’s getting. Time to let the Iranian Stallone go.

Free agent priorities: Safety and ILB.

[texaspackerbacker]

Yes, ILB is the biggest need. Very few of those get taken in the first round, though.

If we could get a guaranteed elite Safety, yeah, but I'm not nearly as negative about what we have as some people - Rudy Ford IMO has been excellent, Owens has been mostly good, Anthony Johnson (#36) has been decent, and as was said, Savage was ok late in the season. What I see is that all of those guys have been pretty good in this new Barry thing, 2 and 3 deep shell coverages, but single high Safety is a recipe for any of them to look bad.

For sure restructure Kenny Clark and Aaron Jones. Let Devondre Campbell go - unless insiders know something not observable about his being capable of a bounce back. They need to get the Dillon situation clarified before the draft. Yeah, I'd sign him very cheap, but I'm thinking some other team will think he's worth signing for more. If that happens, let him go and draft somebody like Braelon Allen in the 3rd round or so. Definitely tell the sacred cow to hit the road.

I would not draft an O Lineman early, no earlier than fourth. I've never been as negative about Runyan as some people, and he improved IMO late in the season. Re-sign him if it can be done without breaking the bank.

Absolutely re-sign Keisan Nixon and maybe draft a Corner in the mid rounds.

Conduct auditions for kickers. It almost certainly can't be hard to find a better one than Carlson.

[bobblehead]

It won't hurt to lose a single one of those unrestricted guys. I suspect a couple will be back for competition on cheapish deals.

Jones and Clark will be re signed/ restructured. Campbell and Bak are gone probably. (McDuffie played pretty well and made Campbell expendable).

If I guess at the unrestricted list I would say Wilson as a core ST guy is back at minimum deal. Same for Tyler Davis if he passes a physical. Of the safeties I think with a new DC Savage is back on a prove it deal. Ford if he is cheap because he is a good ST guy at a minimum and serviceable S in a pinch.

All the restricted guys will be offered minimum deals that they have to sign.

Edit: We have zero? safeties under contract except Johnson. You can't draft 7 of them. That is part of the reason I think Ford will be back at least. Then its just a crapshoot of not great guys who are out there. Its the reason I advocated signing a stud if there is one in FA....I read an article about one guy from Cleveland I think it was.

[run pMc]

Unrestricted Free Agents

TE Tyler Davis - offer a cheap 1 year deal, has ST value

TE Josiah Deguara - let him walk, they will look to get better at FB/HB.

RB A.J. Dillon - let him walk unless he wants to take a deep hometown discount. I think some team will make him a modest offer he'd be wise to take. Agree he's more of a very good RB3 than a meh RB2 and you can't pay those guys 2M a year.

S Johnathan Ford - offer him or Owens to 1 year deal for depth and ST value

OT Yosh Nijman - let him walk, he probably wants to compete for a starting role somewhere else at this point

CB Keisean Nixon - they'll want to get better here, but he has a lot of ST value. offer a 2Y/6-8M + incentives.

S Jonathan Owens - offer him or Ford to 1 year deal for depth and ST value

G Jon Runyan - let him walk

S Darnell Savage - let him walk, I think he'll want a new start. If no interest you bring him back cheap.

S Christian Uphoff - let him walk

LB Eric Wilson - bring him back on 1-year deal for ST value

Restricted/Exclusive-Rights Free Agents
Meh on all of them except Melton and Whelan. They'll probably bring some of them back for depth, competition and ST value. They'll all be cheap and are still under team control with RFA/ERFA status.

Cut Devondre, Keep Kenny & Preston, redo Jones' contract to keep him.
Bakhtiari is probably a goner but it's a whole thing in itself.

Probably redo Jaire or someone's contract to create more cap space. They have a lot of draft picks so they will continue to get younger and cheaper as their cap mess unwinds. I think they may wait until after the draft to bring back most of these players, none of these FAs are make-or-break signings except Nixon IMO.

[run pMc]

Anthony Johnson Jr. is the only safety under contract next year. They'll likely bring somebody back, but they will absolutely look at cheap FA and draft to get better there. It was a weakness this year.

[Tony Oday]

Getting rid of Campbell only saves $2.5 (i think) on cap so there is not way we find an ILB that is as good as him that cheap.

[Joemailman]

Getting rid of Campbell only saves $2.5 (i think) on cap so there is not way we find an ILB that is as good as him that cheap.

He really seems to have lost a step. Actually, I think there is a chance you can find a FA ILB for less than that. https://overthecap.com/free-agency

[Joemailman]

The Green Bay Packers signed LB Keshawn Banks (KEY-shawn), S Tyler Coyle, WR Grant DuBose, DL Jonathan Ford, CB Zyon Gilbert, CB Anthony Johnson, QB Alex McGough (ma-GOO), RB Ellis Merriweather, LB Arron Mosby, LB Kenneth Odumegwu (oh-doo-MAY-goo), FB Henry Pearson, WR Thyrick Pitts (thigh-rick), T Kadeem Telfort and TE Joel Wilson. General Manager Brian Gutekunst announced the transactions Monday.

All 14 players finished the season on the Packers' practice squad.

[RashanGary]

Kenny Clark is in the last year of his deal next year. It looks to me like he’s owed almost 40M more of cap hit. Quinnen Williams makes 24M. If Clark is extended for 3 years at 25M per year, plus the 40 he’s owed, it would be 4 years 115M total contract. 29M per year.


Yikes. But you can’t even think about the 40 he’s owed. That is what it is. It’s not going away. You have to think about the 25 per and if he’s with that, and I think he his.

Man, Aaron Rodgers was dead set on making sure the Packers wasted all of their resources on his shot so as to leave Love in a situation where his early career is digging out.

I think you resign Clark, then restructure with voids and eat it 4 years from now when the cap is higher. But it’s an unfortunate situation.

[texaspackerbacker]

All the negative crap spewed by ingrates about Rodgers and the cap situation he gets the blame for, yet the Packers have at very least a top five roster talent-wise.