Nothing about the start of the offseason for the Green Bay Packers has been all that surprising.
Sure, after a week of free agency, Matt LaFleur’s team doesn’t necessarily look “better” on paper. The Packers have lost a handful of free agents, including All-Pro center Corey Linsley, and they haven’t signed an outside free agent. But again, nothing that has happened since the end of the NFC title game qualifies as surprising.
The Packers, as they’ve always done, prioritized keeping their own roster intact. They cut only two actual contributors from last season – offensive tackle Rick Wagner and linebacker Christian Kirksey – to create cap space and found the rest by restructuring deals of veterans, including Preston Smith.