With many teams being stuck up against the sunken salary cap for the upcoming 2021 NFL season, additions through the draft will become the easiest and cheapest tactic this offseason. For the Green Bay Packers, their draft picks will need to hit and hit often this class, an area that general manager Brian Gutekunst has…
March 21, 2021
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Anthony Haag
Packers 2021 Draft Pick Order, including Compensatory Picks
With NFL free agency already kicked off, team personnel are also preparing for the 86th annual NFL draft happening April 29 – May 1 in Cleveland, OH. The NFL has released every team’s current picks for the upcoming draft. Early this month, the NFL also awarded three compensatory draft picks to the Packers, bringing their…
March 20, 2021
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PackerAlex
Recapping the Packers Offseason to this Point
It feels like an appropriate time to recap the Packers Offseason to this point. Free agency officially started on Wednesday but a flurry of transactions and agreed upon deals has been going on for weeks. Most of us live busy lives and between school, work, family, friends and other life things, sometimes we forget to…
March 19, 2021
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TundraVision
No Huddle Radio #26: The Big Wide Receiver Deep Dive
The new league year has officially begun and the Packers are under the salary cap. While many people expected the team would make moves in free agency, they don’t seem to have any kind of urgency. Barring additions in the draft, it’s likely the team will roll into 2021 with the same group of wide…
The Green Bay Packers entered this offseason with two marquee free agents – running back Aaron Jones and center Corey Linsley – and with the shrinking salary cap putting them in a bind, the likelihood of even one returning held an outside chance. With the miracles that cap guru Russ Ball was able to work,…
March 18, 2021
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Contributor
Green Bay Packers put faith in Aaron Jones to defy history
The Green Bay Packers have never been a team who spent big to retain talent or to bring in big name players in free agency. The Smith brothers were a move that was unlike management decisions made in the past. Now, Aaron Jones had a big contract dealt out to him in an effort retain…
March 17, 2021
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Matt Hendershott
Bears botch QB decision again, provide cautionary tale
The Chicago Bears treated themselves to a Red Rifle this offseason, bringing in veteran quarterback Andy Dalton on a one-year deal to, presumably, start for the franchise. Assuming he beats out Nick Foles, who was brought in last season to challenge their downward-trending ‘star’ quarterback. Four years after trading up to draft North Carolina’s one-year…