Packers General Manager Brian Gutekunst said last week that he expected outside linebacker Preston Smith to remain with the team for next season. Smith, indeed, will stay under a reworked deal.
The Packers altered Smith’s contract to lower his salary cap number, Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Smith was entering the third year of a four-year deal he signed with the Packers in 2019.
Smith was scheduled to make $6.85 million in base salary in 2021 and count $16 million against the cap.
After posting 12 sacks in his first year in Green Bay, Smith had only four last season for the Packers.