Let's Go Bargain Shopping for the Packers

According to overthecap.com, the Green Bay Packers are projected to be around $28 million over the 2021 salary cap. That figure fluctuates daily. The website is using a projected cap of $176 million for next season. The actual cap has not yet been determined, but it will be in that neighborhood and, regardless, the Packers figure to be in the red.

This will likely result in the loss of several of their better players whom the team will not have the money to retain That will create holes in their roster they will, no doubt, look to fill in the draft. But before the draft, the first order of business will be the free agent market. Through restructuring and release, the Packers will manufacture…