By any objective analysis, the Green Bay Packers’ contract with outside linebacker Nick Perry has been a disaster. After a career year in 2016, when Perry totaled 11 sacks and played in 14 games while on a one-year, $5 million deal, the team signed him to a five-year contract worth $60 million.
That has not gone as planned.
In a little less than two seasons since signing that contract, Perry has just 8.5 sacks in 21 games. He has gone on injured reserve, ending his 2018 season after just nine contests and a miserable 1.