The new league year for the NFL starts in a month, and it’s possible no team will be as busy over the next month as the Green Bay Packers.
The team awaits Aaron Rodgers’ decision on his football future. But the quarterback is just the tip of the iceberg for general manager Brian Gutekunst and executive vice president Russ Ball.
The Packers are roughly $50 million over the 2022 salary cap and have 23 pending free agents, including 14 soon-to-be unrestricted free agents. And the team will probably have to make decisions on the immediate futures of nine other veteran players, including Rodgers. There are eight realistic cap casualty candidates for the cap-strapped Packers entering the offseason.
All in all, the Packers will probably need to make as many as 30 individual decisions on the future of players in the next month or so, and the decisions must fit within the framework of the salary cap. The team needs to find the delicate balance between shedding salary cap dollars and…
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