The Packers added a new cornerback and a new linebacker, brought back some important pieces of their 2025 roster, and said goodbye to some old friends over the past few days, dramatically reshaping their team as they turn their attention to the 2026 season. They\u2019ve been busy!<\/p>\n
And the crazy part is that free agency hasn\u2019t technically even started yet.<\/p>\n
The new league year doesn\u2019t officially start until Wednesday afternoon, and every free agent deal will take effect at that time. We\u2019re still in the funny money, legal tampering period, and it\u2019s possible things can change. And there are other considerations still in the works \u2014 like the Packers\u2019 surprising (but not that surprising) decision to release Nate Hobbs this morning<\/a>, or their move to nab Benjamin St-Juste on a two-year deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n Everything is in flux right now. Anything can happen. Anything can change. That\u2019s what makes this part of the NFL calendar so exciting, and sometimes befuddling. But that\u2019s why we watch!<\/p>\n So keep the popcorn at hand. There are plenty of twists and turns still to come.<\/p>\n Sorting through the madness of the first day of free agency with some Packers-specific winners and losers.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a look at who\u2019s winning and losing from a league perspective.<\/p>\n \u201cIs he better than Quay Walker?\u201d might not be the best framing here, since I don\u2019t think the Packers are counting on him to be as good as Walker, but it\u2019s an important part of the pros and cons.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t wait to spend all this money\u201d would have been my first words, but Willis went in a different direction and I respect that.<\/p>\n The most interesting part of this story is that the wife in question doesn\u2019t have to be your wife to qualify. Any wife, apparently, will do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Packers added a new cornerback and a new linebacker, brought back some important pieces of their 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[52136,7,2702],"class_list":{"0":"post-804950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-cheese-curds-daily-green-bay-packers-news-and-links","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay-packers-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116206055178915581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804950","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=804950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}