Packers Free Agent Review: Aaron Banks

On the first day of the NFL’s “legal tampering period,” the Green Bay Packers agreed to terms with free agent offensive guard Aaron Banks on a four-year, $77 million deal. The 27-year-old Banks spent the first four years of his NFL career with the San Francisco 49ers and was a second-round pick, 48th overall, in the 2021 NFL draft out of Notre Dame.

Banks played five offensive snaps his rookie year after starting the season as a healthy scratch. When the 49ers eventually activated him, he played the majority of his snaps on special teams.

In 2022, he took over as the full-time starter at left guard, a position he held until the end of 2024 when he suffered an MCL injury in a Week 16 loss to…