The Packers are moving on from one of their veteran offensive linemen.
Per ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Green Bay is releasing Elgton Jenkins.
Jenkins, 30, was moved to center to start the 2025 season. But he suffered a season-ending lower-leg fracture in November, also suffering ligament damage with the injury.
The Packers recently agreed to re-sign Sean Rhyan to a three-year contract after he started at center following Jenkins’ injury.
The move to release Jenkins will save the Packers $19.53 million against the cap in 2026 with a $4.8 million dead cap charge. Jenkins was set to enter the last year of his contract.
A two-time Pro Bowler, Jenkins appeared in 96 games with 94 starts for the Packers, who had selected him in the second round of the 2019 draft.
The Jets have agreed to make a couple of additions to their defensive line early in free agency.
Defensive ends Joseph Ossai and Kingsley Enagbare have both agreed to deals with the team. According to multiple reports, Ossai has agreed to a three-year, $36 million deal with the team and Enagbare has agreed to sign a one-year, $10 million pact.
Ossai was a 2021 third-round pick in Cincinnati and he had 14.5 sacks while playing a rotational role with the Bengals over the last four seasons. He also had 116 tackles, 44 quarterback hits, four forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries.
Enagbare was a 2022 fifth-round pick and he appeared in every Packers game during his four years in Green Bay. He had 146 tackles, 11.5 sacks, 31 quarterback hits, three forced fumbles and a fumble recovery.
The Jets also agreed to trade for veteran safety Minkah Fitzpatrick on Monday as they work to remake one of the league’s worst defenses.
The Dolphins now have a quarterback who can thrive in cold weather.
With Tua Tagovailoa due to be released on Wednesday, the Dolphins have agreed to terms with former Packers backup quarterback Malik Willis.
Per multiple reports, it’s a three-year, $67.5 million deal. The $22.5 million APY falls in the dead center of the $20 million to $25 million annual average we’d heard about from a G.M. at the Scouting Combine.
The benefit for the Dolphins is to get three years. Many believed it would be a two-year deal.
The fact that the Dolphins made a beeline for Willis makes it clear that both coach Jeff Hafley and G.M. Jon-Eric Sullivan believe in Willis. They had full access to him for the last two years, on the practice field, during meetings, etc. They have far more information than teams usually have about free agents, and they think Willis can play for the Dolphins like he did in limited duty for the Packers over the past two years.
Rashan Gary is heading to Dallas.
The Packers have agreed to trade Gary to the Cowboys for a 2027 fourth-round draft pick, according to multiple reports.
Gary, a veteran defensive lineman, was expected to be released unless the Packers could find a trade partner willing to take on his $19.5 million non-guaranteed pay for 2026. In the Cowboys, the Packers found that partner.
The 28-year-old Gary has played his entire seven-year career with the Packers and started 15 games last year. Last week, Gary posted a goodbye to Green Bay on Instagram, then deleted it. There were claims that Gary had been hacked, though few people believed those claims, as his initial post seemed consistent with a player who had been told he was on the way out.
After last year’s blockbuster trade that saw Micah Parsons go to the Packers for two first-round picks and Kenny Clark, the Cowboys and Packers have now made another deal, this time with the Cowboys trying to bolster their defense and the Packers shedding cap space.
With a trip to free agency roughly 12 hours away, linebacker Eric Wilson decided to stay where he has been.
Via Mike Garafolo of NFL Media, the Vikings and Wilson have agreed to terms on a three-year, $22.5 million deal. Of that amount, $12.5 million is fully guaranteed.
The 31-year-old Wilson appeared in all 17 regular-season games last season, starting 16 of them.
He arrived in Minnesota as an undrafted free agent in 2017. After four seasons with the Vikings, he signed a one-year deal with the Eagles. A Week 1 starter in 2021, he was released after only seven games. He finished the year with the Texans.
Wilson spent the next three seasons with the Packers. In his first two years, he appeared in 30 games with no starts. In 2024, he appeared in all 17 games, with 12 starts.
Last year, he signed a one-year, $2.6 million deal to return to Minnesota.
Not many guys see their biggest NFL payday on the other side of 30. Wilson has — and it ensures (given the guarantees) that he’ll have at least two more years with the Vikings.
