I analyze Green Bay Packers salary cap & roster. Help explain the dollars & sense of the team. Also other nerdy, random, or interesting stuff in my brain.
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Green Bay Packers Salary Cap Update 6/4/2026:
Salary Cap:
🟡Current: $26.35m
🔵Effective: $11.62m
Plenty of room for extensions for Watson, Kraft, and Wyatt!
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The Packers traded Aaron Rodgers, let 8 starters walk in free agency, had no money to sign any significant free agents, had 12 draft picks make the roster (11 the prior year), started over on special teams, lost their All-Pro LT week 1...
...and got better in 2023!
#GoPackGo
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Jaire Alexander, Eric Stokes, Rasul Douglas, Adrian Amos, and Darnell Savage isn’t a secondary - it’s a primary.
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The Packers will eat $35,072,000 of dead cap by trading Kenny Clark.
$13.125m of remaining signing bonus
$13.747m of remaining restructure bonus (x2)
$7.5m of roster bonus paid
$0.7m workout bonus
Yikes
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The Green Bay Packers don't need to draft help for Aaron Rodgers. They need to draft help for the Green Bay Packers.
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Edgerrin Cooper needs to be a 100% snaps player. Enough of this rotation nonsense.
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Trade two 1st round picks (plus) to get Khalil Mack
Pay $91M over 4 years
Win zero playoff games
Trade away for next season 2nd & 6th round picks
Eat $24M dead cap charge on the way out
Not exactly an ideal payoff for the Chicago Bears with their Khalil Mack investment. Yikes.
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Packers 2024 Checklist
Extend
🔲Love
Restructure
🔲Gary
🔲Jaire
🔲Jenkins
Goodbye
🔲Bakh
🔲Campbell
🔲Newman
Restructure or Gone
🔲Jones
Extend or Restructure
🔲Clark
Restructure if Needed
🔲Smith
Keep if Cheap??
🔲Savage
🔲Nixon
🔲Dillon
Top Needs
🔲CB
🔲S
🔲OL
🔲RB
🔲LB
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Packers have two starting 100% snaps type safeties in Xavier McKinney & Evan Williams.
No reason why either should come off the field at this point.
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Props to Brian Gutekunst for having the balls to look at his backup QBs, both of whom he had recently drafted, saying “this isn’t good enough” and them trading for a guy just before roster cutdowns and cutting the other two.
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Imagine complaining about getting 1st & 2nd round picks for a player who didn’t want to be here…
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Give Jordan Love all the money @Packers. He’s the guy.
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Tom Brady's parting gift to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers - $32 million of backloaded contract dead cap to hit their books over the next 1-2 years while he isn't even on the team.
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Packers fans can expect to see a LOT more in 2024:
-Hand on the ground 4-man defensive fronts
-Press man cornerback coverage
-Roaming center field free safeties
Basically, the complete opposite of what we've been used to.
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Brian Gutekunst, Packers GM, Genius
1⃣Allow Jets to talk to Rodgers before deal in place
2⃣Leak Packers favorable narratives to media
3⃣Know Rodgers will have irresistible urge to "Set the Record Straight" and publicly over-commit his desires to play for the Jets
4⃣Wait
5⃣Profit
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I will print out and eat this tweet if Adams gets $35M per year.
The Green Bay Packers are expected to offer Aaron Rodgers 45 M and Davante Adams 35M annually. per @YahooSports
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Xavier McKinney with a “C” captain’s patch.
Josh Jacobs with a “C” captain’s patch.
Packers importing some veteran leadership in free agency.
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I don’t understand why the Packers choose not to showcase their $55m a year QB.
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Imagine being upset the Green Bay Packers drafted a large, athletic, physical, productive, healthy, and young dude with a ton of upside at a premium position of need.
Can’t be me!
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You can't have the coaching staff stand at the podium telling us Brandon McManus is healthy and that "Kickers miss Kicks" and then have McManus tell the Monday Night production crew he hasn't felt even "semi-healthy" until this week.
It's not adding up, with 2 kickers on the 53.
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Remember when the Packers went 6-10 in Rodgers’ first year as a starter? Let’s settle down everybody.
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Romeo Doubs (with the 1s) gets separation on a double move down the sideline but drops a sure-fire 70 yard touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers.
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Packers 2025 Unrestricted Free Agents:
RB - AJ Dillon
TE - Tyler Davis
OL - Josh Myers, Andre Dillard
DL - TJ Slaton
LB - Isaiah McDuffie, Eric Wilson
CB - Eric Stokes, Corey Ballentine, Robert Rochell
K - Brandon McManus
Not a single "Must Re-Sign" in the whole group
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Keisean Nixon has to now be the Packers #1 unrestricted free agent priority to re-sign in free agency.
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The 2023 Salary Cap is $224.8M.
Today the Green Bay Packers played & won a football game with $118.5M (53%) of cap space unavailable on the field.
Dead: $59.34M
PUP: $3.25M
IR: $1.03M
Bakh: $21.34M
Jaire: $10.76M
Jones: $8.20M
Jenkins: $6.97M
Campbell: $5.53M
Watson: $2.10M
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Packers Media: Are you excited to finally be able to run the Matt LaFleur offense?
Matt LaFleur: I don't know what you mean by that 😏
Also Matt LaFleur:
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Green Bay Free Agent Signings
2024: Xavier McKinney, Josh Jacobs 😍📈🏅
2025: Aaron Banks, Nate Hobbs 🤮 📉🤕
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Green Bay Packers - Free Agent Pitch Transcript
Q:How much will you pay?
A:Less
Q:How's the weather?
A:2.5 months are nice
Q:How do WI taxes compare?
A:10th worst
Q:Any clubs or nightlife?
A:Kwik Trip is open 24 hours
Q:Why Green Bay?
A:Aaron Rodgers
Q:Where do I sign?
A:📜
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The Packers spent 2 second round picks on Christian Watson and so far they are using him as an expensive replacement for Tyler Ervin, running mostly jet sweeps and WR screens.
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Packers paying Dillon long snapper money and fans are twisting themselves up angry about it.
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Romeo Doubs (with the 1s in red zone) pulls out a triple move near the goal line and catches a TD from Aaron Rodgers at the pylon.
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Packers starting Left Tackle Elgton Jenkins had 2 solo tackles against the New Orleans Saints, tied for 7th most on the team.
That’s a lot to unpack.
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Malik Willis is 10,000% not going to be a Packer in 2026. Give me the reduced comp pick on 2027 over any potential 2026 trade package. He is more valuable as a premium backup in Green Bay’s Super Bowl window this year than trying to min-max a return on him walking out the door.
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The GB Packers are 1st in both points scored & touchdown passes in the NFL.
But I was told they NEEDED to:
-Draft a WR
-Sign Antonio Brown
-Trade for Robbie Anderson
-Trade for Emmanuel Sanders
-Trade for AJ Green
-Trade for Will Fuller
-Trade for OBJ
-Trade for Allen Robinson
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Raiders signed Davante Adams for $12.18M cap cost, gave up 1st & 2nd round picks
Packers signed De'Vondre Campbell, Rasul Douglas, Robert Tonyan, Jarran Reed for a combined $11.78 cap cost, drafted Quay Walker & 1/2 Christian Watson
This is a better football team without Adams
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Packers up 7 points with 6:10 left after a 4th down redzone stop.
Their next 2 drives combined for -15 yards.
1 completion: 4 yds
1 run: 2 yds
3 incompletions
2 penalties: -10 yds
1 sack: -11 yds
Say what you want on special teams, the offense wasn't good enough in the moment.
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Rodgers can't trade himself.
If the Packers don't move him, his choices are:
Play for Green Bay
Retire
Be in Breach of Contract
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The Packers have the following WRs & TEs under contract next season for $12.3M cap hit... total.
Christian Watson
Jayden Reed
Romeo Doubs
Dontayvion Wicks
Malik Heath
Samori Toure
Luke Musgrave
Tucker Kraft
Ben Sims
Bo Melton & Henry Pearson will also be back on minimum deals.
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With that sack fumble, Preston Smith now has his 6th sack of the season and has earned a $500,000 bonus.
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Was "I don't talk to Kickers" supposed to be some sort of brag?
Well, your kicker talked to Troy Aikman and told him he hasn't been healthy while your team has lost each of the last 2 games by 3 points each having missed field goals with McManus on the field.
You can't have the coaching staff stand at the podium telling us Brandon McManus is healthy and that "Kickers miss Kicks" and then have McManus tell the Monday Night production crew he hasn't felt even "semi-healthy" until this week.
It's not adding up, with 2 kickers on the 53.
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The Aaron Rodgers trade compensation to the Jets can be updated to include Robert Saleh in the deal now too.
Recently fired Jets coach Robert Saleh is at Packers practice. Long history between him and Matt LaFleur. Also has worked with Jeff Hafley.
We’ll hear from LaFleur after practice if he’s hired Saleh in some capacity.
That’s him on the far sideline watching the offense.
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AJ Dillon is averaging 5.3 yards per carry and doesn't get a touch on 1st & Goal from the 3?
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Jayden Reed is going to be a really good WR for the Packers for a long time.
I cannot confidently say that about anyone else in their WR room as they have all had their ups & downs - some will stay but which ones those are is up in the air.
Reed has been a consistent star ⭐️
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I've watched the Packers lose to teams quarterbacked by Daniel Jones, Zach Wilson, Tyler Heinicke, Ryan Tannehill, Desmond Ridder, Jimmy Garoppolo, Kenny Pickett, and Tommy DeVito over the past 2 seasons.
I'm not discounting a Shanahan lead team regardless of their starting QB.
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The Green Bay Packers can sign any free agent they want next offseason. I conservatively project $25M cap to spend with only basic roster maintenance & draft class adds.
They can create another $50.8M with simple restructures on 8 pricey veterans - more if they add void years.
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Being over 6’4” and able to run a sub 4.4 40 doesn’t mean much as a NFL WR if you are lacking in-air ball skills, reliable hands, or physical contested catch ability.
Packers need some extra from Christian Watson.
But remember that one time he did a backflip after scoring a TD?
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Aaron Rodgers - Notorious Distraction Limiter.
𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗢𝗥:
Sources close to the #Jets, tell us that QB Aaron Rodgers is "pissed" they were selected to appear on Hard Knocks.
The team has a lot of work to integrate the future HOF'er into the offense and he would prefer "to limit the distractions."
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Tucker Kraft:
-Under contract for 2026
-On track to earn PPE raise
-Cannot be extended until AFTER 2025 regular season
-Will be a very rich man next year
-Should not step on a practice field in camp until his new deal is signed
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Ages of the Packers players in this photo:
Love: 25
Heath: 23
Reed: 23
Wicks: 22
Watson: 24
Doubs: 23
Kraft: 23
Musgrave: 23
Very excited to watch this young core grow together!📈📈📈
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The Packers have paid Jaire Alexander $45,326,000 (minus some per-game and workou bonuses) and have only accounted for $17,870,000 on their salary cap.
The $27,456,000 difference is dead cap if he's gone in 2024. So unless things go nuclear, expect Jaire back in Green Bay, OK?
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The Packers are a 1-4 team walking around in a 3-2 team's record. Ugly wins & ugly losses all around.
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It *appears* Romeo Doubs did not address the team after coming back from his team suspension and then dodged the media after practice to take accountability. Jaire Alexander did both after his suspension.
He may be back, but I'm not certain all is resolved with Romeo.
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Aaron Rodgers has played 1 year of his 4 year contract extension and is upset the Packers won't commit to him.
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Davante Adams:
🔹Received a 3 year, $67.8M deal ($22.6M APY)
🔹Disguised as a 5 year, $140.2M deal ($28M APY)
There is zero chance he makes it to years 4 & 5 on the deal - these years are intentionally bloated to artificially boost him up to claim the "highest paid WR" title.
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Imagine a 3-4 front of
Parsons - LVN - Wyatt - Gary - Cooper
with Quay Walker lurking in the background
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I’m told the Packers are canceling Wednesday practice and will instead conduct 90 minutes of lower body stretches followed by 40 minutes of drinking Gatorade to combat future hamstring injuries & cramps.
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Packers Fans at roster cutdowns: "How was Brayden Narveson even available?!"
Packers Fans today: "I get it"
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Both are true:
1⃣Aaron Jones was awesome on & off the field while in Green Bay - Dude rocked the Green & Gold. Loved him.
2⃣Aaron Jones now plays for a rival of my favorite team. I wish him & his team no harm but much negative success on the field, as it's best for the Packers.
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Russ Ball better start penciling in a $25M per year placeholder on the Packers books for the Zach Tom fund.
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This is the first time I have ever seen the Packers acknowledge a transaction before it becoming official official.
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$2 million dollar contract playing at an elite level - A massive W for the Packers.
I can't believe I am tweeting this.
The Green Bay Packers have the highest-graded inside linebacker in the NFL at @PFF.
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Every time Nixon touches the ball you have to scratch your head as to why they stuck with Amari for as long as they did.
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Remember when Justin Fields said the speed of the NFL game was “actually kind of slow to me” after playing one pre-season game?
Good times 😂
I bet he wishes this ass-beating by Tampa Bay would “speed up” so he can get off the field in one piece.
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Packers go 1-5 in their division. Both games against the Bears decided on the final play, and won their only matchup on a rare field goal block.
Packers have some work to do take back the North in 2025.
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Green Bay Packers' trade of Preston Smith will create:
🔹$2,023,529 of 2024 salary cap space
🔹$7,626,000 of 2025 salary cap space
🔹$18,207,000 of 2026 salary cap space
🔹$1,667,000 of 2027 salary cap space
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Edgerrin Cooper looks like a dude on defense so far, a bright spot in some limited snaps.
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The Packers have 4 former 1st rounders on their defensive line and struggle to make meaningful impact during the game - they are almost non-existent while rushing 4.
There is either a massive talent problem, a coaching problem, or both.
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I continue to be baffled as to each week we hear Head Coach Matt LaFleur continue to say they need to run the ball more, or need to get Aaron Jones more involved earlier, or need to stay committed to the run like he isn't the guy holding the call sheet and radioing in the calls.
"We've got to find a way to run the football," LaFleur says. Tonight's totals: 12 carries, 27 yards.
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The #Packers have tendered an exclusive rights free agent tender to WR Allen Lazard. All 4 of their ERFAs have been tendered.
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As expected, David Bakhtiari filed for injury protection benefit from the Packers after being released with a failed physical designation before the 2024 season.
He will receive $2,050,000 with $1,230,000 counting against the Packers 2024 salary cap for this claim.
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I'm very excited to watch Josiah Deguara play football for the Green Bay Packers in 2023.
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Jaire Alexander's contract had $53.66M remaining cap cost over the next 2 seasons. Releasing his will leave behind $17.04M ($7.52 in 2025 $9.52 in 2026).
The Packers create $36.62M of cap space the team GREATLY needs heading into next offseason.
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Aaron Rodgers, great player when healthy
David Bakhtiari, great player when healthy
Aaron Jones, great player when healthy
Packers trying to get younger and minimize the "when healthy" monikers on their roster.
40 year old QB, Million knee surgeries, 30 year old RB are high risk players to stay healthy.
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The Packers are paying Isaiah McDuffie more money than the Ravens are paying Jaire Alexander to play football in 2025.
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"Scared money don't make money"
"All gas, no fucking brake"
"Wake up with your piss hot"
Fun quotes for mid-week headlines & throwing on a T-shirt, but in no way reflect the identity of the Green Bay Packers over the 7-year tenure of Matt LaFleur.
Consistently Inconsistent...
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Sure are a lot of people who spent all last year slamming the Packers selection of AJ Dillon in the 2nd round now jumping on the AJ Dillon HypeTrain Bandwagon 😏
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