The Green Bay Packers signed LB Isaiah Simmons. The transaction was announced Tuesday by General Manager Brian Gutekunst.<\/p>\n
Simmons (6-4, 238), a sixth-year player from Clemson, was originally selected in the first round (No. 8 overall) of the 2020 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals. He has played in 84 regular-season games with 42 starts for the Cardinals (2020-22) and New York Giants (2023-24), also appearing in one playoff contest with Arizona. For his career, Simmons has recorded 308 tackles (211 solo), 21 passes defensed, 15 tackles for a loss, 13 quarterback hits, eight forced fumbles, 8.5 sacks, five interceptions, including touchdown returns of 56 and 54 yards, and two fumble recoveries. On special teams, he registered a blocked field goal, 15 tackles, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. In 2020, he earned All-Rookie honors from the Pro Football Writers of America. Simmons will wear No. 28 for the Packers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers signed LB Isaiah Simmons. The transaction was announced Tuesday by General Manager Brian Gutekunst.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,7,34,507,6476,6477,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-homepage-cp","14":"tag-news-national-feature","15":"tag-news-press-releases","16":"tag-news-transactions","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114423320016335977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}