{"id":682799,"date":"2026-01-16T22:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/682799\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:06:22","slug":"packers-matt-lafleur-has-leverage-to-fight-for-20-million-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/682799\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers\u2019 Matt LaFleur Has Leverage to Fight for $20 Million Per Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Green Bay Packers<\/a> and head coach Matt LaFleur have been in contract negotiations this week following the team’s early exit from the playoffs on Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More News: Packers Could Fire Matt LaFleur if John Harbaugh Wants Job<\/a><\/p>\n

The Packers<\/a> ended their season on a five-game losing streak, including blowing a 21-3 halftime lead in a 31-27 loss to the Chicago Bears in the wild-card round.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LaFleur and general manager Brian Gutekunst have one more season remaining on their current contracts. President Ed Policy is trying to work out a deal to keep LaFleur in Green Bay, but the coach’s demands might be more than the team is willing to pay.<\/p>\n

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Per Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated, LaFleur is believed <\/a>to have enough leverage to ask for up to $20 million per year on a new contract.<\/p>\n

“(Chicago Bears head coach) Ben Johnson got $13 million per year, and (Jacksonville Jaguars head coach) Liam Coen got $12 million per year in January of 2024,” Breer wrote. “Those two guys brought a combined zero games of experience as head coaches to the proverbial negotiating table.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Logically, that gives LaFleur, who\u2019s been to two NFC title games, and is 16th all-time in winning percentage (.654), plenty of room to ask for between $15 million and $20 million. Will the Packers go there?”<\/p>\n

If no deal is reached soon, Breer thinks the Packers could trade LaFleur to the Atlanta Falcons or Miami Dolphins for a top-60 draft pick. (Atlanta doesn’t have a first-round pick for 2026).<\/p>\n

LaFleur is 76-40-1 during his seven seasons in Green Bay. He’s 3-6 in the postseason. The Packers most recently won the NFC North in 2021, when Aaron Rodgers was still with the team.<\/p>\n

It would be interesting to see if Miami or Atlanta would be willing to offer LaFleur substantially more than what the Packers would this offseason. $20 million would seem extremely high for LaFleur, as that’s the expected salary <\/a>for John Harbaugh with the New York Giants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harbaugh has won a Super Bowl. LaFleur has never taken the Packers to one.<\/p>\n

For more on the Packers and the NFL<\/a>, head to Newsweek Sports.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers and head coach Matt LaFleur have been in contract negotiations this week following the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,2514,2513,3031,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-682799","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-matt-lafleur","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115907100574471509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682799","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=682799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}