{"id":138575,"date":"2025-06-18T03:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T03:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/138575\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T03:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T03:06:32","slug":"ravens-qb-lamar-jackson-pleads-with-gm-to-sign-college-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/138575\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens QB Lamar Jackson Pleads with GM to Sign College Teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ravens QB Lamar Jackson Pleads with GM to Sign College Teammate<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Green Bay Packers dropped a bombshell on the NFL earlier this month when they announced the release of two-time All-Pro cornerback Jaire Alexander.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe #Packers are releasing star CB Jaire Alexander today, sources say,\u201d Rapoport wrote<\/a> on his official X account. \u201cThe #Packers<\/a> and Jaire Alexander agreed to explore a potential trade this spring, while a restructured contract was also discussed. In the end, Green Bay and Alexander move on with a clean break.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Alexander on the open market, an old college teammate at Louisville is ready for him to join him on the Baltimore Ravens roster.<\/p>\n

‘Go get him, Eric! I love all our corners, don’t get me wrong. But, go get him, Eric,” Jackson told reporters on Tuesday, per Ari Meirov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jackson then admitted he’s already reached out to Alexander.<\/p>\n

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“I hit ’em up, yeah, I hit ’em up. You don’t know. You never know with Jaire,” Jackson continued.<\/p>\n

Alexander, who signed a four-year, $84 million contract<\/a> with Green Bay in 2022, is just 28 and still has a lot of football left in him. His departure from the Packers wasn’t performance-related, but due to a hefty $25 million cap hit for 2025.<\/p>\n

The former Louisville Cardinals defender has dealt with injuries recently, however. Over the past two years, Alexander has played in just 14 total regular-season games due to numerous injuries, including groin, back, shoulder and knee issues.<\/p>\n

He missed the Packers’ final eight games of 2024, including their Wild Card round loss to the Eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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When he’s been healthy, Alexander has been one of the best at his position. Across seven playoff games, he’s posted 28 tackles, three interceptions and five pass breakups.<\/p>\n

Related: Ravens’ Rookie Kicker Reportedly Leading Competition Early<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Ravens Could Make Blockbuster Move for Jags RB<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 17, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ravens QB Lamar Jackson Pleads with GM to Sign College Teammate originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Green…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,41,5390,895,577,6,169,8646],"class_list":{"0":"post-138575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-green-bay","13":"tag-jaire-alexander","14":"tag-lamar-jackson","15":"tag-louisville-cardinals","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-ravens","18":"tag-the-green-bay-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114702161430367797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138575","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=138575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}