{"id":687014,"date":"2026-01-18T19:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/687014\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:17:15","slug":"green-bay-packers-sign-matt-lafleur-to-contract-extension-gm-briant-gutekunst-nears-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/687014\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Bay Packers sign Matt LaFleur to contract extension, GM Briant Gutekunst nears extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CHICAGO,The Packers after \u201cnearly a week of negotiations\u201d signed coach Matt LaFleur to a \u201cmulti-year contract extension.” Getty Images <\/p>\n

The Packers after \u201cnearly a week of negotiations\u201d signed coach Matt LaFleur to a \u201cmulti-year contract extension that will guarantee he won\u2019t go into 2026 with just one year left on his deal.\u201d The Packers also were \u201cclose to completing a contract extension\u201d for GM Brian Gutekunst. Packers EVP & Dir of Football Operations Russ Ball also is expected to \u201creceive a contract extension.\u201d Terms of the deals were not available, and it is \u201cunclear whether LaFleur and Gutekunst will have matching years on their contracts.\u201d A source said the Packers\u2019 front office structure is \u201cstaying the same.\u201d All three \u201cwill report to President and CEO Ed Policy, who made the decision to extend each of the three men\u2019s contracts.\u201d A source said that there was \u201cno hesitation about bringing LaFleur back.\u201d Though terms of the deal aren\u2019t available, it is \u201clikely LaFleur will earn in the\u201d $15M per year range. It is \u201cunclear whether Policy and Gutekunst demanded that LaFleur make changes on his staff.\u201d The Packers have missed the playoffs only once under LaFleur, who has a regular-season record of 76-40-1 (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL-SENTINEL, 1\/17<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Packers after \u201cnearly a week of negotiations\u201d signed coach Matt LaFleur to a \u201cmulti-year contract extension.” Getty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,2514,2513,10578,6,428],"class_list":["post-687014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-green-bay-packers","tag-football","tag-green-bay","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-greenbay","tag-greenbaypackers","tag-leadership","tag-nfl","tag-packers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115917714578133671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687014","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=687014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}