Elgton Jenkins has been the Green Bay Packers’ top offensive lineman since David Bakhtiari was released following the 2023 season, playing in every offensive line position except right guard.
Jenkins, who primarily manned the left guard spot last season, will enter 2025 playing center after the Packers signed Aaron Banks to a free agent deal in the offseason. However, Jenkins was reportedly seeking an adjustment to his current four-year, $68 million contract, which he signed late in the 2022 season.
According to a story Aug. 2 from Pro Football Rumors, Jenkins is owed $32.8 million in his final two years on his deal. The veteran will receive $11.7 million before the start of this season, but the former second-round draft pick has no guaranteed money coming his way for 2026. Jenkins had hoped that the team would restructure his current contract to afford him guaranteed money entering the final year of his deal, but now, according to multiple reports, he does not expect such a thing to happen.
The Packers recently activated Jenkins from the active/non-football injury list last week and expect him to be the anchor again this season for an offensive line looking to settle in before the start of the season.
His presence is much needed after The Athletic’s Matt Scheidman reported last week that there were several center-quarterback exchange mishaps prior to Jenkins’s return to the field.
With Jenkins — who has four career starts at center — penciled in at center following the departure of Josh Myers, Banks occupying Jenkins’ old position at left guard, the Packers have one other mainstay on the line in Zach Tom at right tackle after the team locked up Tom to a four-year, $88 million extension July 22, the team has competitions at left tackle and right guard where 2024 second-round pick Jordan Morgan is vying for one of those spots against left tackle holdover Rasheed Walker and right guard Sean Rhyan.
If Morgan (6-5, 311) wins one of those jobs, the player he beats out in all likelihood will be the unit’s sixth man, or first off the bench when needed. If he doesn’t, Morgan’s the sixth, Packers.com’s Mike Spofford suggested.
Green Bay also has two players acquired from the 2025 NFL Draft in second-rounder Anthony Belton and seventh-rounder John Williams. Last year’s fifth-rounder Jacob Monk and sixth-rounder Travis Glover also join the competition as backups on the line.
