After switching to a 4-3 base defense, the Green Bay Packers are in need of linebacker bodies, and on Thursday, the team allegedly got some important experienced depth. A post on Wilson’s has announced that Eric Wilson has finally been re-signed by the Packers.
After becoming as one of the team’s most important special teams performers in 2022 and 2023, Wilson will make his way back to Green Bay for a third season in a row.
After ranking sixth on the squad the year before, he led the club in special teams snaps with 308 last season.
In 2023, Wilson contributed more to the defense than he did in his rookie season with the Packers, accumulating 121 defensive snaps, or roughly 11% of the team’s total.
Those snaps frequently resulted from the Packers’ need for linebacker reinforcements after Quay Walker and De’Vondre Campbell both missed extended periods of time due to injuries.
In addition to his services on special teams, Wilson’s role in 2023 and his tenure as a full-time starter for the Minnesota Vikings in 2020 indicate that the Packers value him as a depth linebacker.
In 2020, Wilson participated in over 1,000 defensive plays and recorded three interceptions, one forced fumble, and three sacks.
In this year’s Divisional playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers, Wilson produced the most noteworthy and unquestionably significant play of his Packers career.
In the third quarter, Wilson made a crucial recovery following a fumble by Keisean Nixon during a lengthy kickoff return.
A few plays later, the Packers regained the lead, but they were unable to hang on for the win.
Wilson is qualified for the NFL’s veteran salary benefit, which is a salary-cap mechanism that permits teams to absorb a hit to the salary cap that is less than a player’s actual income.
Wilson’s contract is probably for one year under this clause. Wilson would have a seven-year veteran’s base salary of $1.21 million; however, he would only cost the Packers $985,000 against the salary cap
(the league minimum salary for a two-year veteran) and receive an additional $167,500 in compensation (as a signing bonus, for example) under the veteran salary benefit.
In addition to having another important component of Rich Bisaccia’s special teams unit back in the fold, the Packers will still need to focus on improving their linebacker room.
Bleacher Report states that Zinter was the first of the Packers’ top-30 visits.
Zinter’s visit should mostly consist of a medical examination because of the terrible leg injury he sustained in Michigan’s final regular season game versus Ohio State.
For the Aggies, the rangy linebacker was a producing machine. Bleacher Report reports that he will be paying the Packers a visit.
, who have adopted a 4-3 system, are looking for a linebacker after De’Vondre Campbell was released.
Jarrian Jones is scheduled to visit the Packers in the top-30, according to Ryan Fowler of Bleacher Report.
is a cornerback who might provide a room that includes everyone from the previous season more depth. He is capable of playing on the boundary or in the slot.
