Green Bay Packers
Perhaps harkening back to the Ted Thompson era, the Packers have been inordinately quiet in free agency thus far. They’ve signed just two players who were on other active rosters in 2019. One of them is a familiar face for Lions fans…
Signed RT Rick Wagner for two years and $11 million. That’s a good deal to get a starting right tackle from the Lions. Wagner isn’t as good as the man he’s replacing, Bryan Bulaga (now with the Chargers), but the Packers got younger and cheaper.
Signed LB Christian Kirksey, an interesting gamble at a surprisingly high price tag (2 years, $13 million). I covered Kirksey with the Browns and he’s a great person. As far as playing LB now after two major injuries that have wiped out almost all of the last two years, color me quite skeptical the Packers get bang for their buck here.
Re-signed TE Marcedes Lewis. Nothing like being forced to keep a soon-to-be 36-year-old backup tight end — for $2.25 million, no less — whose 15 catches in 2019 are irreplaceable to the offense now that the (admittedly underwhelming) Jimmy Graham is gone.