Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers added a significant weapon on Tuesday with the reported addition of tight end Jimmy Graham, but he also lost one as well.
Not long after the news of Graham’s three-year deal with the Packers broke, the team announced the release of wide receiver Jordy Nelson, a longtime target of Rodgers.
Nelson arrived in Green Bay in 2008, a few years after Rodgers. Naturally, Nelson’s departure is tough pill to swallow for the two-time MVP.
“Hard to find the right words today to express what 87 means to me,” Rodgers wrote in an Instagram post.