GREEN BAY - The Green Bay Packers will be playing against Za'Darius Smith twice a year now that the free-agent outside linebacker has signed with NFC North rival Minnesota.
NFL Network reported that Smith agreed to a three-year, $42 million deal with the Vikings.
The veteran pass rusher was released by the Packers ahead of the new league year. He originally looked poised to return to the Baltimore Ravens, the club that originally drafted the Kentucky product in the fourth round of the 2015 NFL draft. But the deal fell through and Smith returned to the open market last week.