That partly explains the Packers’ willingness

Dang Mike, I’m 68 but I would have gotten the boys together and cleared your driveway so you could do your Packer work, if I were still in WI! You know I’m not alone, sir. Then again, it’s always nice to recover from vacation gradually…

I appreciate the thought, but Mother Nature still made sure I woke up Monday morning to another snow/ice storm in Green Bay, to make up for missing last week’s blizzard. There truly is no escape.

What did the Packers do with the other two top-15 picks they’ve had since 2009?

In 2018, they traded back from 14 to 27 and then back up to 18 to select Jaire Alexander, and got an extra first-round pick the following year in the process (which was used for Darnell Savage, after trading up nine spots). Then in ’19, they took Rashan Gary at 12.

Rich from Grand Rapids, MI

It should not be lost in the big picture that if 12 is traded or retires this year, GB is $68M UNDER the cap in 2024. That is the definition of getting healthy quickly in salary cap terms.

To be fair, if Jordan Love is with the Packers on his fifth-year option in ’24, he’ll consume about one-third of that space. But your point is valid, and I think that partly explains the Packers’ willingness to continue pushing cap charges into the future with these restructures. Aaron Rodgers is a year-to-year proposition, and at whatever point he’s no longer on the books, that cap room can absorb the delayed charges, void years, etc., they’ve been using to keep their top players for now rather than release them as cap casualties.

I know we are all waiting to hear what Aaron’s decision is after his four-day isolation (which I’m jealous of by the way). Do you think he will do a press conference either way or will it just “leak out” via the “experts” online? Living where I do, I want to avoid hearing the decision through the Minnesota media so I’m boycotting any reporting from across the river. Thanks for the common sense I get to read every day in the Inbox!

First off, I don’t see Brian Gutekunst breaking any Rodgers news from Indy today, but we will have live-stream coverage of his podium session at 9 a.m. CT today on packers.com, so be sure to tune in. We’re also hoping to post video of any other media session Gutekunst does in front of cameras, and Wes will cover everything from a written standpoint. That aside, I can see this going one of two ways. Rodgers might go on McAfee and say he’s planning to play in 2023 (or retire), but if the former, he’ll say he still has to work out…