{"id":321167,"date":"2025-08-27T08:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/321167\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:07:07","slug":"packers-sign-long-snapper-matt-orzech-to-three-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/321167\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers sign long snapper Matt Orzech to three-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREEN BAY \u2013 One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/sports\/packers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> player who won\u2019t be going anywhere on cutdown day is long snapper Matt Orzech.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the final year of his contract, Orzech agreed to a three-year extension, his agent, Paul Sheehy, posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Orzech, 30, has handled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.packersnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the Packers<\/a> long-snapping duties both seasons special-teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia was in charge. Signed as a free agent after playing with Jacksonville and then the Los Angeles Rams, Orzech struggled with accuracy his first season, particularly on field goals, but after the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/green-bay-packers\/335\" data-autotag=\"2b76aec5-0d77-4545-9a2a-f864de5488eb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Packers<\/a> settled on veteran kicker Brandon McManus last year, he found a rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>McManus made 20 of 21 field goal attempts last season, missing one other in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was working especially well in training camp, where McManus hit 73 of 79 attempts for field goals and extra points in practice and games.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of Orzech\u2019s deal were not available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY \u2013 One Green Bay Packers player who won\u2019t be going anywhere on cutdown day is long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[3689,247,265,210,321,3690,7,27,41,345,2514,2513,3688,20842,3310,59526,88,6,35196,59525,245,537,428,530,325,9,266,678,3691,1601,2537,2538],"class_list":{"0":"post-321167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-bay","12":"tag-content","13":"tag-enabled","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-green","16":"tag-green-bay","17":"tag-green-bay-packers","18":"tag-greenbay","19":"tag-greenbaypackers","20":"tag-highlights","21":"tag-hub","22":"tag-matthew","23":"tag-matthew-orzech","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-nfl-hub","27":"tag-orzech","28":"tag-overall","29":"tag-overall-positive","30":"tag-packers","31":"tag-positive","32":"tag-sharing","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-sports-news","35":"tag-story","36":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","37":"tag-wi","38":"tag-wi-content-sharing","39":"tag-wi-content-sharing-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115099706671075057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321167","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=321167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}