A week from now, the first wave of free agency will basically be over, even though free agency won\u2019t yet have technically begun.<\/p>\n
The \u201clegal tampering\u201d period opens on Monday (say it with me one more time: if it\u2019s legal, it\u2019s not tampering, and if it\u2019s tampering, it\u2019s not legal), giving teams a free for all before the start of the league year on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
And if you\u2019re at all confused at how free agent deals get done so quickly during this period, remember, they\u2019re getting hammered out at the NFL Combine right now. This is the real legal tampering period, because I don\u2019t see anybody complaining about the horse trading that\u2019s getting done in Indianapolis right now. I guess we all just pretend not to see it.<\/p>\n
The Packers have a load of work to do before they can even think about participating in free agency, for what it\u2019s worth. They need to make decisions on Elgton Jenkins (likely cut) and Rashan Gary (should be cut), and those two moves alone could give them enough wiggle room to do a bit of spending. But things are getting more complicated by the moment, as the free agency picture begins to clarify as other teams fill out their wish lists.<\/p>\n
The bonanza is bearing down on us, though, one way or another. Can the Packers be ready in time?<\/p>\n
Depending on their willingness to spend, the Packers could have had their pick of centers. Now the Bears are in the market, too.<\/p>\n
Where will Malik Willis land?<\/p>\n
If the Packers go shopping, where should they be looking to spend?<\/p>\n
Unexpected offseason news, to be sure.<\/p>\n
When your mascot is a gator, I guess your photo shoots have to be next level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A week from now, the first wave of free agency will basically be over, even though free agency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[52136,7,41,345,2702,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-791566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-cheese-curds-daily-green-bay-packers-news-and-links","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","13":"tag-greenbay","14":"tag-greenbaypackers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116171353942166554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791566","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=791566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}