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Rob Demovsky
Green Bay, Wisconsin – Two consecutive seasons of injuries finally spent the end of the corner Jaire Alexander with PackerEven if it took a while to reach this point.
Packers informed Alexandre on Monday that he would be released, said a source in ESPN, ending a intersane saga in which the two parties tried to find common ground.
It came one day before Alexander planned to run for the compulsory minicamp team after jumping all the voluntary training sessions in person this offseason.
Alexander appeared in only seven regular season games each of the last two seasons and has not played after last year of last year – despite the practice of semi -regular. He went wounded reserve the last week of the season and underwent a knee operation on what he said was a torn PCL. However, he finished second in the team in the breakthroughs (seven) and equaled the second in the interceptions (two).
It came a year after the shoulder and knee injuries and a suspension of a match for the team prejudicial to the team limited it to seven games.
The choice of first round 2018 had two years to play on the contract of $ 84 million over four years which made him the best paid corner of the NFL at the time. Packers will collect more than $ 17 million in wage space for this season.
Alexander, an All -Pro in 2020 and 2022, has played only 34 of the 68 possible games since the start of the 2021 season – a year in which he appeared in only four regular season games due to a shoulder injury.
Shortly after the end of the 2024 season, Sources expressed private that the team did not want to play the weekly game to know if Alexander would be good health to play or would be ready to play at less than 100%.
“I know it was really, really frustrating not only for him as a player, but also as a club,” said Packers General Manager Brian Gutekunst, shortly after last season. “When you have a player who has done what he has done for us in the past, and I can’t get him out regularly on the field, it’s difficult. You know it’s difficult for the player, hard for the organization.”
Shortly after these comments, Gutekunst said that he would be open to Alexander’s negotiation.
“We have invested a lot in Jaire and we want to make sure that if he is not going to be part of our football team helping us to win matches, that we recover something for this investment,” Gutekunst said at the end of March. “So we will see where it’s okay, but again, work with him every week and try to understand what is best for jaire and packers.”
After the project came and passed without profession, the packers planned to keep Alexander, but only if he was willing to rework his contract. Packers have gone so far as to offer Alexander a revised agreement in recent days, a source told Jeremy Fowler d’Espn, but the two parties could not reach an agreement.
Alexander was to win $ 17.5 million this season, but none of this was guaranteed.
He seemed to know that the end was coming immediately after the season, when the day of cleaning the locker, he refused to speak with the journalists, saying that he had “nothing to say” and that he did not know if he would be back in 2025.
In seven seasons, including qualifying series, Alexander recorded 15 interceptions.
