The Packers released more than $ 10MM Christian Kirksey i Rick Wagner a few days ago. Still, Green Bay is still about $ 13 million above the $ 180 million cap, so there’s a lot of work to be done before the 2021 league year officially begins on March 17th.
According to ESPN.com’s Rob Demovsky, the Packers will almost certainly restructure the quarterback Aaron Rodgerscontract in an effort to create an additional room. The 37-year-old signal caller has a base salary of $ 14.7 million in 2021, along with a $ 6.8 million list bonus that will arrive in March. Green Bay could turn part of that base salary into a signing bonus, a common maneuver the club has already executed with left attack David bakhtiari.
Of course, Rodgers said shortly after the Packers’ NFC Championship Game defeat in January that his future with the Packers was “uncertain,” which naturally led to much speculation. Some reports suggested that his comments were an effort to secure a new contract that represented a strong commitment from the franchise, the selection of which Jordan Love in the first round of the 2020 draft, it clearly upset Rodgers. And another report indicated that the comments – which Rodgers later tried to downplay – had no contractual motivation and that the player and team were heading for a bitter divorce.
Meanwhile, Packers Brass has insisted Rodgers will go nowhere and Demovsky says the club could surely carry out a more complete restructuring of Rodgers’ contract beyond a simple base salary to bonus conversion. Green Bay selected Love after three consecutive years of Rodgers’ “downtime” (by his standards), but in 2020, Rodgers was not at all sensational. It established maximum professionals in percentage of completion (70.7%), QBR (84.4) and TD approvals (48), so it makes sense that the team is available for a new contract that provides additional security to his superstar (economically and others).
Demovsky also names OLB Preston Smith and DE Dean Lowry as possible casualties per head.
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