Predicting the 12 Moves that get Green Bay Packers Under the Salary Cap
By Paul Bretl
Green Bay Packers Extend Jaire Alexander
Projected Cap Savings: $9.8 million
Like extending Adrian Amos, this is also a very easy move to make. The Green Bay Packers picked up Jaire Alexander’s fifth-year option last spring, so essentially, he is playing on a one-year deal for 2022 at the moment, and that comes with a $13.2 million cap hit. An extension for one of the game’s best cornerbacks will keep Alexander in Green Bay and lower his cap hit in 2022 by nearly $10 million. About as easy of a decision as you will find.
Green Bay Packers Cut Randall Cobb
Cap Savings: $6.74 million
If Aaron Rodgers is back, I certainly believe that there is a real possibility that Randall Cobb is back as well; however, it won’t be on his current deal that comes with a $9.53 million cap hit.
Cobb was reliable on third downs and in the red zone, but he was a small part of the offensive game plan, averaging just over three targets per game during the regular season. He also saw just one target against San Francisco in the playoffs, and the offense averaged over 33 points per contest in his absence.
If Rodgers wants Cobb back, I suppose, but the way Green Bay should go about doing so is by cutting him and then signing him to a new deal for the veteran minimum or something very close to that. That nearly $7 million in created cap space could go towards re-signing a player like De’Vondre Campbell.