The Green Bay Packers’ free agent acquisitions (name, average annual salary):
Nick Perry ($11.8M)
Martellus Bennett ($7M)
Davon House ($3.5M)
Lance Kenricks ($2M)
Jayrone Elliott ($1.6M)
Don Barclay ($1.025M)
Packers’ Free Agent Departures:
T.J. Lang ($9.5M);
Micah Hyde ($6.1M)
J.C. Tretter ($5.58M)
Eddie Lacy ($4.25M)
Datone Jones ($3.75M)
Julius Peppers (3.5M)
The team’s departing free agents will earn a cumulative amount of $32.5 million with their new teams in 2017.
Top NFL free agent salaries (annual averages) paid out so far this season (position, name, new team):
$15 – DE – Calais Campbell – Jaguars
$15 – QB – Mike Glennon – Bears
$13.5 – CB – A.J. Bouye – Jaguars
$13.25 – LT – Russell Okung – Chargers
$13 – CB – Stephon Gilmore – Patriots
$12 – G – Kevin Zeitler – Browns
$11.75 – LT – Riley Reiff – Vikings
$11.25 – LT – Andrew Whitworth – Rams
$11.17 – WR – DeSean Jackson – Bucs
$11.17 – LT – Matt Kalil – Panthers
It’s like Arsenal, the London soccer team. Always good, never great, and probably the only top flight team in the world that collects positive incomes from the player transfers to and from other teams. Of course, when they face a contender, the are shown to be a notch below, which isn’t good for netting championships (but yeah, they finish in the top 5 yearly).
Technically, I believe the Perry deal was a contract extension. It was agreed to on March 9, probably minutes or hours before free agency dealing commenced.