{"id":118245,"date":"2025-06-10T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/118245\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T08:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:43:12","slug":"packers-release-cb-jaire-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/118245\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers Release CB Jaire Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaire Alexander<\/a>\u2018s time in Green Bay has come to an end. After talks regarding both a trade and a restructure took place this offseason, the Pro Bowl corner will hit free agency. Alexander is being released today, as first reported by NFL Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport<\/a>. The move is now official.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The team spoke with Alexander\u2019s camp yesterday, Dianna Russini and Matt Schneidman of The Athletic add<\/a>. It was during that meeting that the 28-year-old learned he would be let go. Instead of continuing to pursue a trade or a pact keeping Alexander in Green Bay at a reduced rate<\/a>, team and player will now go their separate ways. Despite the financial impasse the parties arrived at, ESPN\u2019s Rob Demovsky notes<\/a> Alexander was planning to attend this week\u2019s mandatory minicamp.<\/p>\n

[RELATED: Alexander\u2019s Contract Impeded Packers\u2019 Trade Efforts]<\/a><\/p>\n

Two years remained on the former first-rounder\u2019s contract, one which included nonguaranteed base salaries for the remainder of the pact. Alexander was due to carry cap charges of $24.64MM and $27.02MM, figures which were not feasible from the team\u2019s perspective given his inability to remain healthy in recent years. By making this move after June 1, the Packers will see $17.12MM in cap savings while generating a dead money charge of $7.52MM.<\/p>\n

Alexander has spent each of his seven NFL seasons in Green Bay, operating as a full-time starter throughout his time with the team. The Louisville product has been one of the league\u2019s top corners when healthy, and he collected a second-team All-Pro nod in 2020 and \u201922. During the latter campaign, Alexander set a new career high with five interceptions while recording double-digit pass deflections (14) for the fourth time. Both years since then, however, he has played only seven games.<\/p>\n

That lack of availability has made Alexander\u2019s Packers future a talking point for some time now. A trade was not only explored in this case, but the team shopped him prior to free agency<\/a>. No agreement was worked out on that front, and shortly after the new league year began Green Bay inked\u00a0Nate Hobbs<\/a>\u00a0to a four-year, $48MM pact. The former Raider will be a key member of the Packers\u2019 new-look secondary<\/a> this season as the team looks to move forward without a defensive mainstay in the fold any longer.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, it will be interesting to see how much of a market develops for Alexander late in the offseason. Suitors were understandably hesitant about parting ways with draft capital given his injury issues and the possibility of a release taking place. Now that Alexander is indeed set to become a free agent, any number of teams<\/a> have the financial wherewithal to pursue what will no doubt be a short-term deal. Alexander was the league\u2019s highest-paid corner at the time he inked his Packers extension, but his earning power will of course be greatly reduced this time around.<\/p>\n

Jalen Ramsey<\/a>\u00a0looms as another high-profile corner available to interested teams, although the Dolphins All-Pro will (in all likelihood) be acquired via trade. Alexander, by contrast, can begin lining up visits with suitors once his release is processed later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaire Alexander\u2018s time in Green Bay has come to an end. After talks regarding both a trade and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,2514,2513,5390,8730,6,428,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-118245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-greenbay","12":"tag-greenbaypackers","13":"tag-jaire-alexander","14":"tag-newsstand","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-packers","17":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114658188029564790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118245","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=118245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}