Yesterday, the Green Bay Packers signed 16 players to reserve/future contracts, which are essentially league-minimum deals that practice squad players typically receive. With that being said, sometimes teams do sign players on the street or players who were on other teams’ practice squads to reserve/future deals, too. On Tuesday, the Packers added a 17th reserve/future player in receiver Isaiah Neyor.
Neyor signed with Green Bay in training camp and made the team’s initial practice squad following roster cutdowns. In last week’s wild card game, Neyor was called up to the gameday roster and played three offensive snaps. It seemed odd that Neyor wasn’t signed yesterday, when the majority of the Packers’ practice squad was, considering the team just played him in a win-or-go-home game. After the Neyor signing, the only practice squaders who haven’t been signed to a reserve/future deal in 2026 are receivers Julian Hicks and Kisean Johnson.
Below is a breakdown of the players currently under contract for Green Bay going into the offseason:
If Jenkins, Gary and Diggs are eventually gone, which is the expectation, then 62 of the team’s allotted 91 offseason roster spots will be taken. On top of that, four more players on the team are exclusive rights free agents, WR Bo Melton, OL Donovan Jennings, OL Lecitus Smith and CB Kamal Hadden. That gets the team up to 66 of 91, as the team almost always picks up ERFA tenders (they are essentially league minimum deals). With eight draft picks coming in 2026, that ends up being 74 of 91.
For what it’s worth, here are the Packers’ nine unrestricted free agents who are set to hit the market in 2026:
Green Bay can only collect a maximum of four comp picks in 2027 for losses in 2026, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the team tried to do something like keep Sean Rhyan, because it wouldn’t really hurt the team’s standing there. As of now, the projected starting center, with Jenkins likely released, would be Jacob Monk. I also wouldn’t be surprised if one of Nick Niemann or Kristian Welch were brought back to play special teams, as the fifth-linebacker spot is really the only roster spot that the front office consistently allocates to a special teams-only player who isn’t a part of the kicking battery.
Below are Green Bay’s restricted free agents in 2026:
The only player here who I think might receive the minimum $3.5 million tender is Darian Kinnard. Besides him, I expect all of these players to pass through restricted free agency untendered and become unrestricted free agents.
With that being said, I do think there will be some interest from the team to bring a couple of these guys back, depending on their market in unrestricted free agency. Often, the Packers will not tender an RFA but then sign them back on a minimum salary one-year contract with something like $500,000 as a signing bonus. I could see that situation happening for either running back, tight end Josh Whyle or safety Zayne Anderson. Defensive end Arron Mosby is another option, as he was one of Green Bay’s best special teams players, but he didn’t even make the 53-man roster until Week 10, so I doubt they actually want to commit that type of money to him in 2026.