In case anyone hasn’t heard, the Green Bay Packers have an opening at defensive coordinator after Jeff Hafley was hired to be the head coach of the Miami Dolphins earlier this week. The team has already lined up interviews with several candidates, including Eagles passing game coordinator Christian Parker, Vikings passing game coordinator Daronte Jones, and former Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon.

There have been other names thrown into the ring as possible candidates as well, including former Packer Al Harris, who is currently the passing game coordinator for the Bears, and former Falcons head coach Raheem Morris, who has...

Our cap casualty series continues today with Elgton Jenkins. Heading into his age-31 season, will Jenkins be a part of the Green Bay Packers? Let’s find out.

Jenkins was one of general manager Brian Gutekunst’s earliest and most successful draft picks. After grabbing Rashan Gary and Darnell Savage in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft, Gutekunst snagged Jenkins with the 46th overall pick — though he reportedly would have taken quarterback Drew Lock had Denver not taken him off the board two picks earlier.

Jenkins didn’t waste much time settling in as a core member of the Packers’...

The Green Bay Packers came into the 2025 season with two starting receivers on the final years of their contracts: Christian Watson and Romeo Doubs. Both were taken in the 2022 draft, with Watson taken 34th overall and Doubs drafted 132nd.

Before Watson ever returned from his ACL tear that he suffered in the 2024 season, he signed a one-year extension with the team worth $11 million plus incentives. Meanwhile, Doubs has yet to receive a second contract from the team.

According to sources I’ve spoken with, Doubs’ camp attempted to get the ball moving on an extension around the...

For the third time in the Matt LaFleur era, the Packers are on the hunt for a defensive coordinator.

LaFleur walked into the Packers’ job with an arranged marriage to Mike Pettine, but he’s had two opportunities since to hire his own man. The first one came down to a choice between Jim Leonhard, Joe Barry, and Ejiro Evero, and after Leonhard (reportedly) declined an offer, LaFleur made one of the worst 50/50 calls imaginable.

He got it right the second time around, picking Jeff Hafley out of a crowded field of candidates, many of whom have gone on to...

Shoutout to captainlou10 from the comment section for the inspiration for this discussion post. He asked a great question on Tuesday night: “If all potential DCs were equal, what type of defensive system best suits our current personnel?”

Here’s how I feel about the situation:

We already don’t have enough quality interior defensive linemen to run a 4-3 defense that isn’t on the field for 15-play drives, so the last thing I want to do is play a 3-4 defense (Lukas Van Ness would probably be a 3-4 outside linebacker, like he was under Joe Barry) with the current roster...

It’s pretty clear at this point that Green Bay Packers backup quarterback Malik Willis will be playing for another NFL team in 2026. Willis should command a deal in the range of Justin Fields’ two-year, $40 million contract, a benchmark deal for the “prove it here and you’ll get a real starting quarterback contract” market.

Generally, the market for true blue veteran backup quarterbacks now, ones who do not have to compete for their spot on the 53-man roster, is around $5 million per year in 2026. The Packers, due to their cap situation, aren’t really in the position to...

According to NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo, the Green Bay Packers will be interviewing former Arizona Cardinals head coach and Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon for the team’s defensive coordinator vacancy this week. The Packers currently don’t have a defensive coordinator, as Jeff Hafley took the Miami Dolphins’ head coaching position. Gannon is the third known interviewee for Green Bay at the position, with the first two being Minnesota Vikings pass game coordinator/defensive backs coach Daronte Jones and Eagles pass game coordinator Christian Parker.

So far, Gannon is the first coach that Green Bay has set up an interview with...

One of the biggest power brokers in the NFL, besides Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, is New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. On Tuesday, he sat down with 98.5 The Sports Hub in Boston to talk about the future of the league. In the interview, he claimed that the league is expecting to move to an 18-game regular season with two bye weeks, a game for every team overseas each year and the elimination of one preseason game.

“I want to tell you guys that we’re going to push like the dickens now to make international more important with...

Wow, what a ride it was.

Someday, Trevon Diggs may be the answer to an obscure trivia question regarding the Green Bay Packers. After the Dallas Cowboys unceremoniously waived the former All-Pro cornerback late this season, the Packers picked up Diggs on waivers, paying the remainder of his base salary for the final week of the 2025 regular season. The Packers needed bodies at cornerback in Week 18 and as depth for the playoffs, and Diggs was available. Great.

Diggs started the Packers’ final regular season game — a meaningless contest as the team had already locked in the #7...

Alright, so the Green Bay Packers’ 2026 defensive coordinator search is underway. With Jeff Hafley in Miami, the Packers’ biggest move this offseason, considering their draft capital and salary cap situation, will likely be finding Hafley’s replacement.

So far, we know that two candidates are going to interview for the job: Minnesota’s Daronte Jones and Philadelphia’s Christian Parker. Follow our full defensive coordinator tracker, which also includes which candidates are getting interviewed for other jobs around the league, too.

Here’s a quick rundown of potential Packers defensive coordinators who have some sort of ties to Green Bay:

• Cowboys defensive...

Welcome to the end of the Jeff Hafley era.

Matt LaFleur is newly re-signed in Green Bay, but already he faces a big challenge: replacing Hafley as the Packers’ defensive coordinator. Hafley, the darkest of dark horse candidates when he was hired in 2024, leaves some big shoes to fill, especially as the Packers look to rebound from a disappointing end to the 2025 season.

With Micah Parsons returning from a torn ACL and other promising pieces in place, the job should be desirable, especially considering that if the Packers’ offense does its job, the defense should have a fairly...

Now that Jeff Hafley is officially headed to south Florida to be the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, the Green Bay Packers are well and truly kicking off their search for a new defensive coordinator. One day after new broke that Eagles assistant Christian Parker will interview for the job, the Packers have identified a second external candidate for an interview.

That individual is Daronte Jones, who has spent five of the last six years with the Minnesota Vikings. He was Minnesota’s defensive backs coach in 2020, left for one season, then returned to the same job in 2022...