Packer 2026 Roster (Not-Live)

[Pokerbrat2000]

This is why I suspect he stays.

I agree, but I hope the Packers do not overpay, just because they don't have someone to replace him.

 

[mradtke66]

I agree, but I hope the Packers do not overpay, just because they don't have someone to replace him.

To be fair, that's why everyone who gets paid well gets paid well: because what they bring to their organization is hard to replace.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

It appears that the Packers might be losing Jon-Eric Sullivan. Sullivan is the current vice president of player personnel. Dolphins appear to be offering him their GM job.

 

[Schultz]

Nixon has been scraped as the punt returner for quite awhile. Now was that because he didn't want to return punts or the Packers felt he was no longer someone they wanted returning punts?



My take exactly. I think Valentine is currently the Packers best CB and that isn't much of a statement, since he needs to work on several things too.

The Packers secondary is going to be really tested the rest of the way this season. Without Parsons (and Wyatt) on defense, I think opposing QB's are going to have more time when they drop back to pass.

Too many personal fouls from Nixon and too few tackles from Valentine. Neither of these guys should ever be the best corner on your team.

 

[OldSchool101]

I would be curious how that shakes out as well. Roughly speaking, a top 15-20 salary for ILBs works out to around 10m AAV. Currently Quay is at just around 3m and change. Much like the discussion about Gary, IMO he looked reasonably close to a 10m/yr player before Parsons went out hurt.

Physically he is still remarkable, and while he has his boneheaded moments from time to time I think he has really started to iron that out of his game and has been more dependable to my eye. I guess my gut feeling is ultimately that he's a guy who is probably going to be cheaper to give a new contract to than finding someone else who's better and bringing them in. We don't really have any decent internal replacement and coming from the outside we're probably getting cheaper or better, not both. With limited resources I think we'd do better to focus those efforts elsewhere... And I do agree that in general ILB is a fairly undervalued position (but also one for which there's just not a ton of standout players). Even if we tripled his current salary he's still jumping up to just 4-5% of our cap or thereabouts.

Yes I could see that.

Also don’t lose sight of Hopper. In his limited snaps he looked pretty good imo. I’d rather go after a iDT to pair with Wyatt. Many good Offball LB’s float into Day 3, where we can spend a 5th or 6th Rounder similar to how we got McDuffie.

Next we also have Collin Oliver from RD5. He was injured the bulk of this season, but when he got activated he immediate impressed at MN.

I’d rather go after an upgrade in the trenches earlier. Like a really good RUN BLOCKING Guard in RD3 etc.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

Too many personal fouls from Nixon and too few tackles from Valentine. Neither of these guys should ever be the best corner on your team.

100% agree and if I had to fault Gute for 1 thing this season, it was what he did/didn't do to address the CB room. When Parsons was playing we had a decent pass rush and the Packers secondary was able to hide in the shadows. No pass rush, the secondary was fully exposed.

 

[shockerx]

The lack of the run game in the second half was the dagger. We have got to be able to ram it down their throat with a 18 point lead. keep the clock moving..take their will away. The OL has to be up graded even before DL CB. weird lately how our recent departed OL players seem to do better other places. The OL coach has to go..find anyone that can teach these guys to run block. If the OL was in some control last night so many of the other problems are gone. Obvious ones are the clock, play calling all those stupid throws and Defense wearing down. You have to run to win playoff football.

 

[milani]

The lack of the run game in the second half was the dagger. We have got to be able to ram it down their throat with a 18 point lead. keep the clock moving..take their will away. The OL has to be up graded even before DL CB. weird lately how our recent departed OL players seem to do better other places. The OL coach has to go..find anyone that can teach these guys to run block. If the OL was in some control last night so many of the other problems are gone. Obvious ones are the clock, play calling all those stupid throws and Defense wearing down. You have to run to win playoff football.

Many teams we see in the playoffs do not have much trouble making short yardage first downs. And they can run the ball just enough to make it easier for their passing game.

 

[tynimiller]

Figured I'd get this one started...at the time of typing this we now know who we signed to futures contracts and can for now drop off the roster any guys set for UFA (placed at the very bottom of the roster thread and will either be deleted or added back up top as signings occur). I did choose to mark and RFA or ERFA guys as "most" of the time they return to the roster eventually.

2026 Roster as of 1/20/2026
As with the 2025, will update during all of the free agency whirlwind, draft and pre-season stuff working towards the 53 and beyond (slowing down only in season for sporadic updates).

QB
Jordan Love
Kyle McCord

RB
Josh Jacobs
Marshawn Lloyd
Pierre Strong
Damien Martinez
Emanuel Wilson *RFA
Chris Brooks *RFA


TE
Drake Dabney
McCallan Castles
Messiah Swinson
Tucker Kraft
Luke Musgrave

WR
Christian Watson
Jayden Reed
Dontayvion Wicks
Matthew Golden
Savion Williams
Jakobie Keeney-James
Will Sheppard
Isaiah Neyor

OL
Dalton Cooper
Travis Glover
Anthony Belton
Zach Tom
Karsen Barnhart
Brant Banks
John Williams
Aaron Banks
Jacob Monk
Elgton Jenkins
Darian Kinnard *RFA
Donovan Jennings *ERFA



DL/Edge
Devonte Wyatt
Warren Brinson
Colby Wooden
Karl Brooks
Nazir Stackhouse
James Ester
Anthony Campbell
Dante Barnett
Jordon Riley
Rashan Gary
Lukas Van Ness
Micah Parsons
Collin Oliver
Barryn Sorrell
Jaden Crumedy
Brenton Cox *RFA
Jonathan Ford *ERFA


LB
Edgerrin Cooper
Isaiah McDuffie
Ty'Ron Hopper
Jamon Johnson

CB
Carrington Valentine
Keisean Nixon
Nate Hobbs
Shemar Bartholomew
Bo Melton *RFA
Kamal Hadden *ERFA
Trevon Diggs released 1/20/26

S
Xavier McKinney
Evan Williams
Javon Bullard
Mark Perry
Tyron Herring
Johnathan Baldwin
Jaylin Simpson
Kitan Oladapo

ST
P - Daniel Whelan
K - Lucas Havrisik
K - Brandon McManus
LS - Matthew Orzech
K - Alex Hale *ERFA


UFAs 2026
Malik Willis
Romeo Doubs
Kingsley Enagbare
Rasheed Walker
Sean Rhyan
Quay Walker
Zayne Anderson
Nick Niemann
John Fitzpatrick

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

I guess in moving forward, the Packer coaching staff needs to take a long hard look at this list of guys. Some are free agents and the Packers would best to just let them find a new home. Others have remaining and/or big contracts, but aren't earning them, so that too will create some discussion as to what to do with them.

13 Packers who regressed the most in 2025

Brandon McManus, Emanuel Wilson and Quay Walker were among the Packers who regressed the most in 2025.

packerswire-eu.usatoday.com

 

[milani]

I guess in moving forward, the Packer coaching staff needs to take a long hard look at this list of guys. Some are free agents and the Packers would best to just let them find a new home. Others have remaining and/or big contracts, but aren't earning them, so that too will create some discussion as to what to do with them.

13 Packers who regressed the most in 2025

Brandon McManus, Emanuel Wilson and Quay Walker were among the Packers who regressed the most in 2025.

packerswire-eu.usatoday.com

I would not put anything against Jacobs. When you play behind a poor run blocking team, you not only gain less yards but you will get hurt. And it gave defenses the opportunity to load the box. And looking at the defense, we definitely dropped too many picks. But offenses threw short and quick due to Parsons making the downfield pick opportunity a lot less likely.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

I would not put anything against Jacobs. When you play behind a poor run blocking team, you not only gain less yards but you will get hurt. And it gave defenses the opportunity to load the box. And looking at the defense, we definitely dropped too many picks. But offenses threw short and quick due to Parsons making the downfield pick opportunity a lot less likely.

I definitely agree that between the OL and his injuries, Jacobs was limited in what he could do this season. That said, he will be 28 next month and his cap hits are rising, $14.62M in 2026 and $16.625M in 2027. Not totally out of line for a top RB, but lets hope that we can get him back to looking like a top RB, he wasn't quite the force that he should be this last season.

 

[Magooch]

Regarding the regression of Cooper and Walker... I wonder how much of that can be attributed to the loss of Anthony Campanile?

This is kind of related to what was being discussed in another thread too - how a lot of times it seems like many of our assistants aren't seen as particularly "high demand" for other teams and we aren't having a ton of guys poached each year. BUT, Campanile may have been one of the good ones.

As you may know he was our LB coach last year. And last year, especially Coop, he was looking like he was fast-tracked to being an All-Pro LB. This year...not so much.

Now of course Camp isn't the only guy responsible. After all Hafley's the DC, but still it's interesting to look at some of the contrasts here.

(And let me also add. There is no one universal "ranking" to fall back on here. Depending on who you read/how you assess you might see some slight variance. I wrote down these numbers a couple of days ago and now can't remember where I sourced them from lol. BUT, they are all still in the ballpark at the end of the day)

Last year, we had the #7 ranked defense, and we allowed a score on 33% of drives.
Last year, the Jaguars had the #31 ranked defense, and allowed a score on 45% of drives.

Campanile left us, and became the Jaguars DC. We replaced him with Sean Duggan, who had previously been one of Hafley's assistant coaches at BC (LB coach 2020-2022, "Co-DC" and LB coach in 2023) and a "defensive assistant" for us in 2024.

This year, our defense ranked #19, and allowed a score on 43% of drives.
This year, the Jaguars defense ranked #6, and allowed a score on 31% of drives.

Now, a year later, Campanile is getting a HC interview with the Dolphins, too.
(I actually saw some rumors - again I can't recall where - mentioning him as a DC option to replace Hafley should he go)

 

[gopkrs]

Regarding the regression of Cooper and Walker... I wonder how much of that can be attributed to the loss of Anthony Campanile?

This is kind of related to what was being discussed in another thread too - how a lot of times it seems like many of our assistants aren't seen as particularly "high demand" for other teams and we aren't having a ton of guys poached each year. BUT, Campanile may have been one of the good ones.

As you may know he was our LB coach last year. And last year, especially Coop, he was looking like he was fast-tracked to being an All-Pro LB. This year...not so much.

Now of course Camp isn't the only guy responsible. After all Hafley's the DC, but still it's interesting to look at some of the contrasts here.

(And let me also add. There is no one universal "ranking" to fall back on here. Depending on who you read/how you assess you might see some slight variance. I wrote down these numbers a couple of days ago and now can't remember where I sourced them from lol. BUT, they are all still in the ballpark at the end of the day)

Last year, we had the #7 ranked defense, and we allowed a score on 33% of drives.
Last year, the Jaguars had the #31 ranked defense, and allowed a score on 45% of drives.

Campanile left us, and became the Jaguars DC. We replaced him with Sean Duggan, who had previously been one of Hafley's assistant coaches at BC (LB coach 2020-2022, "Co-DC" and LB coach in 2023) and a "defensive assistant" for us in 2024.

This year, our defense ranked #19, and allowed a score on 43% of drives.
This year, the Jaguars defense ranked #6, and allowed a score on 31% of drives.

Now, a year later, Campanile is getting a HC interview with the Dolphins, too.
(I actually saw some rumors - again I can't recall where - mentioning him as a DC option to replace Hafley should he go)

I didn't know all that. Sounds like he's a very good coach.

 

[gopkrs]

Nah. I don’t buy it.

I don't buy that either. It gets old hearing people make excuses for being a young team too. I much prefer to look for people to blame on the coaching staff. But they are harder to pin down

 

[tynimiller]

Jaden Crumedy DL and Kyle McCord QB both signed to reserve/future contracts.
Trevon Diggs released.

 

[milani]

Jaden Crumedy DL and Kyle McCord QB both signed to reserve/future contracts.
Trevon Diggs released.

I guess they do not want to pay Diggs. I suspect that he will be signed by someone right after the SB.

 

[Pkrjones]

Trevon Diggs just released, saving $15mil on the '26 salary cap. Wonder if he'll be re-signed at some point to hang with his buddy Parsons?

 

[milani]

Trevon Diggs just released, saving $15mil on the '26 salary cap. Wonder if he'll be re-signed at some point to hang with his buddy Parsons?

Have a feeling someone else will grab him.

 

[tynimiller]

Trevon Diggs just released, saving $15mil on the '26 salary cap. Wonder if he'll be re-signed at some point to hang with his buddy Parsons?

I don't mean to be "that" guy but we need to merge the not live and the semi live 2026 threads as postings are happening on both @longtimefan this something you can do for us

 

[tynimiller]

I guess they do not want to pay Diggs. I suspect that he will be signed by someone right after the SB.

At the cost he was nope. Wouldn't be shocked if we hear they blew it and should have asked him if he'd take paycut.

Still plenty of time to do so - they may have talked to his agent and said this is where we are at, if you aren't there and want to see the market let's do it now, and we can always circle back once you see what the market is like.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

Nothing like burning $500K on giving Diggs a place to call home for a month.

 

[Pkrjones]

Unfortunately that $500k wasn't the wasted $ against da 'Bears... it was having MLF calling plays the 2nd half.

 

[tynimiller]

Figured I'd get this one started...at the time of typing this we now know who we signed to futures contracts and can for now drop off the roster any guys set for UFA (placed at the very bottom of the roster thread and will either be deleted or added back up top as signings occur). I did choose to mark and RFA or ERFA guys as "most" of the time they return to the roster eventually.

2026 Roster as of 1/20/2026
As with the 2025, will update during all of the free agency whirlwind, draft and pre-season stuff working towards the 53 and beyond (slowing down only in season for sporadic updates).

QB
Jordan Love
Kyle McCord

RB
Josh Jacobs
Marshawn Lloyd
Pierre Strong
Damien Martinez
Emanuel Wilson *RFA
Chris Brooks *RFA


TE
Drake Dabney
McCallan Castles
Messiah Swinson
Tucker Kraft
Luke Musgrave

WR
Christian Watson
Jayden Reed
Dontayvion Wicks
Matthew Golden
Savion Williams
Jakobie Keeney-James
Will Sheppard
Isaiah Neyor

OL
Dalton Cooper
Travis Glover
Anthony Belton
Zach Tom
Karsen Barnhart
Brant Banks
John Williams
Aaron Banks
Jacob Monk
Elgton Jenkins
Darian Kinnard *RFA
Donovan Jennings *ERFA



DL/Edge
Devonte Wyatt
Warren Brinson
Colby Wooden
Karl Brooks
Nazir Stackhouse
James Ester
Anthony Campbell
Dante Barnett
Jordon Riley
Rashan Gary
Lukas Van Ness
Micah Parsons
Collin Oliver
Barryn Sorrell
Jaden Crumedy
Brenton Cox *RFA
Jonathan Ford *ERFA


LB
Edgerrin Cooper
Isaiah McDuffie
Ty'Ron Hopper
Jamon Johnson

CB
Carrington Valentine
Keisean Nixon
Nate Hobbs
Shemar Bartholomew
Bo Melton *RFA
Kamal Hadden *ERFA
Trevon Diggs released 1/20/26

S
Xavier McKinney
Evan Williams
Javon Bullard
Mark Perry
Tyron Herring
Johnathan Baldwin
Jaylin Simpson
Kitan Oladapo

ST
P - Daniel Whelan
K - Lucas Havrisik
K - Brandon McManus
LS - Matthew Orzech
K - Alex Hale *ERFA


UFAs 2026
Malik Willis
Romeo Doubs
Kingsley Enagbare
Rasheed Walker
Sean Rhyan
Quay Walker
Zayne Anderson
Nick Niemann
John Fitzpatrick

Oh crap….i didn’t think this merge thread request right.

Now the running live post I keep updated is on page four lol……

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

Not the brightest move by someone that is about to become a Free Agent that will be looking for a new contract.

Packers OL and pending free agent Rasheed Walker arrested on gun charges

Packers left tackle Rasheed Walker was arrested with on gun charges on Friday.

packerswire.usatoday.com