GREEN BAY – The Green Bay Packers’ easiest offseason decision was whether to restructure running back Aaron Jones’ contract to account for his $20 million salary cap number.
It was more a matter of whether Jones would agree to it..
The Packers, desperate for salary cap room and hedging their bets on a 29-year-old running back, demanded a $5 million salary cut from $16 million to $11 million and in turn converted $8.52 million of Jones’ salary into a guaranteed signing bonus, according to an NFL source with access to NFL salary information.