Tweet
Notes: Packers following rules
Green Bay won't violate minimum pay guidelines
By TOM SILVERSTEIN
tsilverstein@journalsentinel.com
Thanks to an $11.8 million option bonus payment the Packers had to pay linebacker A.J. Hawk this month, they will end up spending more than enough to satisfy their $92.9 million cash minimum for player salaries.
According to the collective bargaining agreement, the Packers must spend 85.2% of the current $109 million salary cap in player costs. They currently sit at about $82 million, which means they need to spend only another $11 million in cash to satisfy the minimum.
There are two different ways they can accomplish that even if they don't sign a free agent or trade for a high-priced veteran.
They can extend the contract of someone like linebacker Nick Barnett or Corey Williams and pay him a big chunk of cash this year or they can structure contracts with their draft choices so that a greater-than-normal portion of cash is paid to them this year.
"We spend a lot of time talking about personnel, we spend a lot of time discussing those kinds of questions," general manager Ted Thompson said Tuesday at the annual NFL owners meetings. "We don't speak about them publicly, but we have an understanding of where we are and some things that we'd like to do. That'll work itself out."
Thompson acknowledged that locking up Barnett or Williams, both of whom are entering the final year of their contracts, is a possibility. He said the Packers' main objective was to spend money on their own players.
"We have a number of players that we would like to have some conversations about their future with the Packers, and certainly those are two guys that would be in that group," Thompson said.
Green Bay won't violate minimum pay guidelines
By TOM SILVERSTEIN
tsilverstein@journalsentinel.com
Thanks to an $11.8 million option bonus payment the Packers had to pay linebacker A.J. Hawk this month, they will end up spending more than enough to satisfy their $92.9 million cash minimum for player salaries.
According to the collective bargaining agreement, the Packers must spend 85.2% of the current $109 million salary cap in player costs. They currently sit at about $82 million, which means they need to spend only another $11 million in cash to satisfy the minimum.
There are two different ways they can accomplish that even if they don't sign a free agent or trade for a high-priced veteran.
They can extend the contract of someone like linebacker Nick Barnett or Corey Williams and pay him a big chunk of cash this year or they can structure contracts with their draft choices so that a greater-than-normal portion of cash is paid to them this year.
"We spend a lot of time talking about personnel, we spend a lot of time discussing those kinds of questions," general manager Ted Thompson said Tuesday at the annual NFL owners meetings. "We don't speak about them publicly, but we have an understanding of where we are and some things that we'd like to do. That'll work itself out."
Thompson acknowledged that locking up Barnett or Williams, both of whom are entering the final year of their contracts, is a possibility. He said the Packers' main objective was to spend money on their own players.
"We have a number of players that we would like to have some conversations about their future with the Packers, and certainly those are two guys that would be in that group," Thompson said.
Comment