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GB may possibly have made NFL history today by signing LS Joe Fortunato who played at U Delaware.  This marks the first LS signing from the school in NFL history and will go down as such if he actually plays in one game.  I know he was signed else where but never played in a game - that I could find.  If that happens in a Packer uniform, he will join this list.  And GB will have made it all happen. 

@ilcuqui posted:

Big Dog coming back

@AdamSchefter: Green Bay and TE Marcedes Lewis reached agreement on a two-year, $8 million deal that includes $4 million in guaranteed money, per source. Lewis will be returning for his 16th season, he’ll be 37 in May, and he still shows no signs of letting up.

Makes you wonder if he committed to two years if there has been some movement on their commitment to Rodgers beyond 2021.

Saw a couple of interesting observations about the Packers cap and contracts this morning.

@KenIngalls: Believe it or not we are watching the Packers' version of all in.

-Push out money on almost every 2nd contract veteran
-Spend all the money bringing back the same guys who almost reached the Super Bowl
-Create a dumpster fire of next year's salary cap
-Blow it all up in 2022

Fleshing this out a bit, Demovsky this morning with a sobering look at the Packers’ cap situation for 2022.

https://www.espn.com/blog/gree...on-says-its-possible

If you thought the Green Bay Packers faced a challenge with the salary cap this year, wait until you see what they’re up against in 2022.

Combine that with the fact the Packers haven’t made a single adjustment to Aaron Rodgers' contract, and the 2021 season might be lining up as their last, best chance at another Super Bowl run before they turn things over to Jordan Love or whichever quarterback will succeed Rodgers...

...The top eight players under contract for next season have a combined 2022 salary-cap charge of $161.14 million. If the salary cap jumps from $182.5 million this season to, say, $200 million next season, it still would mean the Packers have more than 80% of their cap tied up in those eight players.

PLAYERCAP NUMBER FOR 2022
Aaron Rodgers$39.852 million
Za'Darius Smith$28.130 million
David Bakhtiari$22.786 million
Kenny Clark$20.65 million
Preston Smith$19.75 million
Adrian Amos$11.982 million
Aaron Jones$9 million
Billy Turner$8.99 million
Total:$161.14 million

If the cap jumped to, say, $220 million because of the new TV money kicking in (although some believe that won’t factor in until 2023), then those eight players still would count for 73.2% of the 2022 cap.

Currently, the Packers’ top eight players for this season account for $109.13 million in cap space, or 59.8% of the 2021 cap, not counting space carried over from the previous season.

The Packers already have $204.192 million in committed cap space for 2022, and that's without All-Pros Davante Adams and Jaire Alexander. Adams is entering the final year of his contract, and there's no chance the Packers let him walk. Alexander could be back on the fifth-year option, which the Packers have to exercise by May 3. The option on Alexander will cost the Packers nearly $13.3 million for 2022.

Whatever the cap number for 2022 is, the Packers can’t operate with so little space left for the rest of the roster.

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@Henry posted:

Well, enjoy the last season of Aaron Rodgers.

For 2022, they would also save 15 million by moving on from Z. Smith (27 million cap hit, 12 million dead cap), 13 million by jettisoning P Smith (20 million cap hit, 7 dead cap). Amos is as good as gone (11 million cap hit and 2 million dead cap).

Moving on from Rodgers (22 million cap savings), the Smith Brothers, and Amos saves about 60 million That's the plan. They could rework the contracts, but I would guess they won't, especially if they regress even a little this year. I'm not convinced they'll resign D. Adams either. It's not their MO to extend WRs deep into their mid-30s which is what any Adams contract will require.

Aaron Jones is probably gone in 2023 (19 million cap hit vs. 6 million dead cap).

2022 is very likely to be Jordan Love handing off to Dillon and Jones and throwing to some young WRs that will be drafted to replace D. Adams this year or next.

Predicting, at this points, what will happen with contracts and the cap for next year is about as pointless as making a mock draft for next year. So many variables, lots of levers to pull, lots of time to manipulate contracts to get what they need. Probably will be some cuts, that’s pretty normal, none of the moves they’ve made are indicative of a plan to “blow it all up” though. At this point it’s as likely that they carry Rodgers through the end of his contract, wish him well and move on, as it is that they trade him after this season. There’s also no more guarantee that Love is going to supplant Rodgers any more than Brian Brohm was going to supplant Rodgers when they picked him 56th overall in 2008.

Do I think this is Rodgers last year? Prior to the off-season I definitely did, but based on the moves they’ve made I actually think the plan is to more/less go year to year with him over the next 3 years and cut bait when he starts to look his age (if he does). They don’t want to increase his dead money over the next two years in case he looks more like 2019 than 2020. It’s clear that MLF/Gute believe Pettine was the only thing holding the team back and they want to roll with the same roster (sans Linsley) + rookies to another shot at it. That lines up with Rodgers saying there are no guarantees in this business, I take that to mean the team won’t guarantee him anything and he’s the starting QB until told otherwise.

That $40M cap number won’t hit, there’s plenty of manipulation that can be done with his contract. If Rodgers doesn’t want to play ball with void years, which is his right, he can force the team to deal him. There’s no downside for him to play ball though because if he’s dealt it doesn’t mean the next team won’t keep his current deal as a year to year deal.

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