The Green Bay Packers are once again looking at a salary cap problem to start the 2023 offseason, but Brian Gutekunst and Russ Ball have a few levers they can pull to erase the pain and create much-needed operating room.
It’s as simple as repeating the same pattern shown by the franchise over the last two offseasons: Just kick the can down the road and borrow from the future.
Seven contract restructures – requiring bonus conversions that push salary cap commitments to future years – could free up around $50 million of salary cap space in 2023.