At the start of the week, the Green Bay Packers had four players aged 29 or older on their roster. As of Thursday morning, that number is down to just one.
Preston Smith, while not the longest-tenured current Packer, is the oldest player on the roster at 31 years old. But gone are three of the other four players referenced above, as the Packers moved on from David Bakhtiari, De’Vondre Campbell, and Aaron Jones in recent days. Each of those three players will leave some significant dead money on the Packers’ salary cap, but at the same time the releases free up cap room to accommodate the signings of players like Xavier McKinney, Josh Jacobs, and Keisean Nixon — all three of whom are currently 26 years old or younger.