Packers make cornerback swap

On Wednesday, the Green Bay Packers signed cornerback Gregory Junior and released cornerback Kaleb Hayes, who was previously under contract on a reserve-futures deal. Hayes spent most of the 2024 offseason with the New York Giants before signing with the Denver Broncos for two weeks last August. Hayes didn’t sign with a practice squad in 2024, but he was given a reserve-futures contract by the Packers, typically deals that they send to their own practice squad players, following Green Bay’s playoff loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Junior played at Ouachita Baptist in Arkansas, a Division II program, before being selected in the sixth round of the 2022 draft by the Jacksonville Jaguars. He…