{"id":97181,"date":"2025-06-02T03:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/97181\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T03:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T03:28:11","slug":"packers-cb-options-absent-jaire-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/97181\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers’ CB Options Absent Jaire Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"

As longtime starting cornerback Jaire Alexander<\/a>\u2018s future with the team remains in question<\/a>, the Packers have had to put together a depth chart under the assumption that he won\u2019t be on it. With the team having to determine who starts at the outside spots, the candidates to fill the slot come into question, as well. The clear candidates<\/a> for that nickel role are second-year safety Javon Bullard<\/a> and free agent addition Nate Hobbs<\/a>. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Bullard, a safety drafted in the second round out of Georgia last year, was relegated to a role in the slot after Evan Williams<\/a>, drafted two rounds after him, was granted the starting safety job next to Xavier McKinney<\/a>. The second-round rookie led the team in snaps as the nickelback as a result, just barely outpacing veteran Keisean Nixon<\/a>. Nixon, though, is not a candidate for the inside assignment, after he led the team in snaps on the outside. He is likely expected to man one of the two starting spots on the outside once again in 2025.<\/p>\n

Hobbs spent three years of his rookie contract, including the most recent two seasons, as the Raiders primary option in the slot. His sophomore campaign, though, saw him primarily play as an outside corner, starting all 11 games that he played in that year. According to Matt Schneidman of The Athletic, this experience on the outside could mean that Hobbs will be asked to start across from Nixon, in the presumed absence of Alexander.<\/p>\n

Carrington Valentine<\/a> is another option to start on the outside. He\u2019s opened both of his two seasons in the NFL coming off the bench but has found himself in eventual starting positions in both years, as well, starting 19 games over that span. Schneidman predicts that Valentine will be coming off the bench to start the season for the third time in a row, serving as the third option at outside cornerback behind Nixon and Hobbs.<\/p>\n

While the potential absence of Alexander certainly poses a challenge, thinning the depth of the team\u2019s secondary, the Packers certainly have options they can employ. Whether it\u2019s as Schneidman predicts with Nixon and Hobbs manning the outside and Bullard in the slot or Nixon and Valentine starting on the outside with Hobbs continuing his nickel role, Green Bay should have the ability to field a starting unit sans Alexander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As longtime starting cornerback Jaire Alexander\u2018s future with the team remains in question, the Packers have had to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[9759,7,41,345,2514,2513,5390,462,5392,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-97181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-carrington-valentine","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-jaire-alexander","15":"tag-javon-bullard","16":"tag-nate-hobbs","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114611651210228984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97181","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=97181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}