Hardman will have to earn his roster spot during training camp

Spotrac has the details on the one-year contract that former Kansas City Chiefs receiver Mecole Hardman signed with the Green Bay Packers this offseason. According to their website, Hardman will earn a salary of $1,170,000 this year, the league minimum for a player with Hardman’s experience in the NFL.

Beyond just his base salary, Hardman signed a $150,000 signing bonus, equal to what some high-end undrafted free agents will receive late next month, $130,000 in per-game roster bonuses — which comes out to around $8,000 per game that he...

The Packers’ roster is largely set for this fall’s slate of games.

The Packers’ offseason is basically over.

Sure, there’s still the NFL Draft to go, and that’s an admittedly big part of any offseason, perhaps even more so this one with the proceedings actually playing out in Green Bay. But in reality, the Packers will add one, maybe two players that will have a significant impact this year. The rest will be developmental players for a year or two down the line, if they ever develop at all.

That reality means that we’ve basically got the 2025 Packers in...

Green Bay takes Ole Miss receiver Tre Harris in the second round of our community mock

Well, the last round was pretty decisive. In a near-disaster situation, Green Bay Packers fans rallied together to name their second-round break in case of an emergency selection: Mississippi receiver Tre Harris.

Harris is an interesting selection for the Packers because he is “Packer sized” at 6’2” and 205 pounds but lacks the deep speed that Green Bay will be missing with the loss of Christian Watson to an ACL tear. Harris, a former Louisiana Tech transfer, ran a 4.54-second 40-yard dash at the...

Isaiah Bond reportedly has a visit lined up with Green Bay

According to Houston-based reporter Aaron Wilson, former Texas wide receiver Isaiah Bond has pre-draft visits set up with the Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers and Buffalo Bills, beyond his local pro day with the Atlanta Falcons. The Buford, Georgia native won’t count against the Falcons’ allotted 30 pre-draft visits, as he is within their local pro day footprint.

It’s worth noting that Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst and Green Bay vice president of player personnel Jon-Eric Sullivan, who interviewed for just about every general manager opening that came up...

Pearce is a designated pass-rusher at the next level who thrived in wide alignments at Tennessee

Last week, we wrote up a scouting report on the Green Bay Packers’ first major pre-draft visitor, Texas A&M edge defender Shemar Stewart. It should be no surprise that the Packers are in the defensive end market for the upcoming draft, as the team has not changed over a single name in that room other than defensive line coach Jason Rebrovich, who was fired after his unit was unable to put together a successful four-man pass rush last season.

Now, we’ll look into another...

Touchbacks will come out to the 35-yard line in the near future

When the NFL moved the kicking spot on kickoffs from the 30-yard line to the 35-yard line in 2011, the touchback rate of kickoffs jumped drastically from less than 20 percent to nearly 80 percent in a few short years. Making touchbacks come out to the 25-yard line in 2016 hardly swayed touchback percentage, which is why the NFL transitioned to the “Dynamic Kickoff” in 2024.

In the first year of the Dynamic Kickoff, returns rose from 21.8 percent in 2023 to 32.8 percent in 2024, still an...

Finding fun plays at Bowling Green

I love draft season, in part because it gets me to watch a ton of college film I might not otherwise watch. There’s a ton of fun, creative stuff happening at all levels of football, and the draft allows me to find some of that cool stuff while watching a prospect. I inevitably end up thinking about how the Green Bay Packers could steal some of those plays and incorporate them into their offense.

This happened recently while I was watching Harold Fannin Jr., a tight end out of Bowling Green. Fannin is a...

Oregon defensive tackle Derrick Harmon is again Green Bay’s first-round pick

The first round of our Mock Draft 2.0 ended in a tie between two prospects for the Green Bay Packers: quarterback Jaxson Dart and defensive tackle Derrick Harmon. The troll attempt almost went the distance, but I will give Harmon the tie-breaking vote here. Better luck next time, Jordan Love doubters.

Harmon is becoming a popular pick for the Packers, as he was also the winning vote-getter for Green Bay’s pick at #23 in our Mock Draft 1.0. Here’s what I had to say about Harmon in [last week’s...

No matter what they do in the rest of the offseason, the Packers still have promising youngsters at wide receiver.

The Packers might have a bigger need on the defensive line, but I think it’s safe to say no position has caused more angst and consternation this offseason than wide receiver — and a lot of it has been misplaced.

Could the Packers receivers have been better in 2024? Without a doubt. Are there still short- and long-term concerns at the position? No question. Are the Packers’ wide receivers a collection of no-talent bottom feeders? Absolutely not.

Maybe they’re missing...

You hold the entirety of human knowledge in your pocket. You gotta get theoretical

If one were to create a list of things that a person had to experience to qualify as a Millennial, there’s a very strong chance that I would check almost every box. I’m about as dead-center in the demographic for Midwest, Millennial, and Male that a person can be without becoming a living embodiment of an ohhyoubetcha sketch.

This means that I grew up in a suburb that fits the idealized Boomer-described childhood. You know the ones! Scraped knees and grass stains! Staying out until the...

Six fan bases seem to think James Pearce Jr. is going to be their first-round pick

Once draft season is in full swing, one of the most popular football websites around is Pro Football Focus’ Mock Draft Simulator. There, fans spend hours crafting mock drafts, either for their team or the league as a whole.

On Monday, PFF released a list of each team’s most-selected player, generally who their most popular selection is in the first round. For the Green Bay Packers, it’s defensive end James Pearce Jr. of Tennesse, who reportedly took a pre-draft visit with the team.

Here’s...

Check out the jersey numbers of the Packers’ newest additions.

With the first big wave of NFL free agency finally behind us, the Green Bay Packers have made a few updates to their jersey numbers. As a refresher, it was reported the Packers would be signing OL Aaron Banks and CB Nate Hobbs when free agency opened. Last week, the Packers also added WR Mecole Hardman. Their official jersey numbers have been announced, so you can all begin beefing up your gameday gear.

Aaron Banks will be wearing #65, previously occupied by DL James Ester, who the team signed in...