With the Green Bay Packers officially out of the playoffs, the team finally has the opportunity to sign players to futures contracts. Futures contracts are essentially minimum salaries that teams can offer to players to fill out their 90-man roster in the offseason.
The Packers announced today that they came to an agreement with 10 futures contract players: QB Kurt Benkert, QB Danny Etling, WR Chris Blair, OL Cole Van Lanen, OL Michal Menet, OLB La’Darius Hamilton, ILB Ray Wilborn, CB Kabion Ento, SAF Innis Gaines and K J.J. Molson. All ten of these players had been in Green Bay over the past year, for varying periods, but only Benkert, Van Lanen, Hamilton and Gaines played for the team in the regular season.