The Green Bay Packers sent shockwaves across the NFL scene in 2020, when the team selected quarterback Jordan Love in the first round of the NFL’s Draft 2020. However, the team still held quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Rodgers ended up winning the league’s MVP while taking the Packers back to the NFC championship game.
Earlier this week, ESPN’s Rob Demovsky reported that the Packers paid Rodgers their $ 6.8 million list bonus last week, instead of converting it into a signature bonus, which would have saved the team $ 4.5 million in salary cap space. Demovsky is also reporting that Rodgers wants “assurances” that he will not enter the next season as a “lame duck”, which means that the quarterback wants an extension of contract of some kind.
During Wednesday’s edition of “Nothing Personal with David Samson”, David Samson went through the process of negotiating the limit of a team and what the future holds for Rodgers.
“Thus, the Packers would win two years of Jordan Love and perhaps sign their rookie option in the fifth year,” said Samson. “So they could be three years old before deciding whether or not he is the next defender in the franchise to follow. [Brett] Favre and Rodgers. But if you had no plans to do that with Jordan Love, you would have converted Rodgers. I don’t know why Packers fans are not standing. But executives are well aware that they will have it for another year and then move on. “
Now, Packers could also choose to convert part of Rodgers’ $ 14.7 million salary for the 2021 season into a subscription bonus. If the team did that, it would free up space for the 2021 limit. At the moment, it is unclear what the team’s plans are, but Samson believes that Green Bay will inevitably split from Rodgers.