GREEN BAY, Wis. -- If the Green Bay Packers want to keep linebacker Nick Perry around for the long haul, they best get working on a contract now. The longer they wait, the more money it will cost.
Perhaps only Mike Daniels has made a bigger impact on the Packers’ defense so far this season. And with Daniels locked up thanks to the four-year, $41 million deal he signed last December, Perry would seemingly be next in line for an extension.
But there’s a catch: Perry’s injury history gives general manager Ted Thompson reason to wait and see if the former first-round draft pick can make it through this season unscathed.