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Are the Packers Setting the Stage for Corey Linsley’s Departure?

Can one of Green Bay’s premiere starters be headed for an imminent divorce from the only pro organization he’s played for since being drafted as a 2014 fifth-round pick?

Seventh-year pro Corey Linsley has been nothing if not reliable in recent years, as he’s played three consecutive 16-game seasons. But beyond his durability, Green Bay’s starting center not only features tremendous physical strength as a run blocker, but markedly improved as a pass protector in 2019.

While the interior blocker was known as your classic short-area mauler coming out of Ohio State, No. 63 led all his center peers with a 98 percent pass-block win rate, an ESPN statistic measuring how frequently an offensive lineman can sustain his block for 2.