{"id":564030,"date":"2025-11-29T23:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/564030\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T23:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:03:15","slug":"packers-urged-to-re-sign-former-first-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/564030\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers Urged To Re-Sign Former First Round Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Bay Packers have one of the best rosters in the league and are a contender in the NFC. However, the Packers have a difficult cap sheet, as they are paying quarterback Jordan Love and pass rusher Micah Parsons a ton of money.<\/p>\n<p>This will make their upcoming free agency decisions difficult, as they have to pick and choose who to pay.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>One decision they will have to make is whether or not to re-sign linebacker Quay Walker. The Packers are <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25305146-1-free-agent-every-nfl-team-needs-prioritize-re-signing-2026-offseason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:being urged to re-sign him;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">being urged to re-sign him<\/a>, as he has been very productive for Jeff Hafley&#8217;s defense.<\/p>\n<p>Green Bay selected Walker in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft. Walker has played at a high level this season. He has 84 total tackles, 1.5 sacks, six tackles for loss, and four passes defended.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old will be one of the best linebackers on the free agency market. Before the season, general manager Brian Gutekunst declined Walker&#8217;s fifth-year option of $14.75 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy expectations are really, really high [for Walker],\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/cheeseheadtv.com\/blog\/what-should-a-contract-extension-with-packers-lb-quay-walker-look-like-515\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gutekunst said in his interview;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Gutekunst said in his interview<\/a> with Aaron Nagler and Corey Behnke before the season. \u201cThe only reason we didn&#8217;t do the fifth-year option is a lot of the outside linebackers are calculated into that number, so it didn&#8217;t make a lot of sense. We&#8217;re going down that road with him [to negotiate an extension], as well to see if we can make that happen as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Before the season, the Packers may have been able to get Walker for less than the cost of the fifth-year option. However, with his breakout campaign, Green Bay will likely have to play him at that number, if not more.<\/p>\n<p>The highest-paid inside linebacker is Fred Warner with an average annual value of $21 million. Walker will likely slot between $15-20 million annually, which would make him one of the top seven highest-paid inside linebackers in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Walker has played at the level to earn that deal, but in hindsight, it would have been better to pick up his fifth-year option.<\/p>\n<p>Gutekunst and the Packers have two other key free agents in wide receiver Romeo Doubs and defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt, but Walker should be a priority for Green Bay&#8217;s defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers have one of the best rosters in the league and are a contender in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[2945,474,7,592,41,345,2514,2513,1724,491,6,428,468,3995,10957],"class_list":{"0":"post-564030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-brian-gutekunst","9":"tag-devonte-wyatt","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-fred-warner","12":"tag-green-bay","13":"tag-green-bay-packers","14":"tag-greenbay","15":"tag-greenbaypackers","16":"tag-jordan-love","17":"tag-micah-parsons","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-packers","20":"tag-quay-walker","21":"tag-romeo-doubs","22":"tag-the-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115635487072412279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564030","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=564030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}