Other teams are fee to poach the practice squad, so long as they place the player they claim on their active roster. That happened to the Packers when the Chicago Bears stole Bruce Gaston back in October.
They were apparently determined not to let it happen again. Thus, they gave Rotherham and Ringo salary increases of about 3.5 times, from $7000 a week to the rookie minimum of $25,588 a week.
Interestingly, that’s what the average Minnesota Vikings fan makes… per year.
Ringo was one of the Packers’ sixth-r0und picks, and played collegiately at Louisiana-Lafeyette.