Packers’ contract with Geronimo Allison will pay him $2.8 million in 2019

Denny Medley-USA TODAY SportsGeronimo Allison will remain in a Green Bay Packers uniform for 2019. That much was revealed a few days ago, when Allison reportedly signed a one-year contract after receiving the $2.025 million “right of first refusal” tender as a restricted free agent. However, questions about the Packers’ handling of Allison remained, most notably why the team elected not to tender him at a higher level.

I, for one, have been on the record as saying I believed the team should have used a second-round tender instead. That would have cost the team (roughly) another one million dollars and would have protected the team against losing him to an offer sheet from another team.…