Packers Sign Nelson to 4 Year, $39 Million Extention

Packers Wide Receiver Jordy Nelson has signed a four year, $39 million extention with the team, NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reports. 

Included in the deal, which prevents the veteran from becoming a free agent after 2014 and pays $9.75 million annually, is $14.2 million in guaranteed money and an $11.5 million signing bonus, a pretty big raise from the $4.2 million he's made in recent seasons.

In other words, all of that cash was enough to convince Nelson to stay, something Green Bay has stressed as one of their main priorities over the last few weeks.

Packers' 2014 Expectations for Cobb May Be too High

While the Packers' Randall Cobb is definitely a good Wide Receiver, it's very aguable that he isn't one of the league's best.

Cobb, who missed most of last season with a knee injury, has never been one to let his team down, although he isn't necessarily a superstar either.

Despite that, Pro Football Talk reports, the Pack have high expectations for #18 in the upcoming year, even going as far as to say that Cobb may lead the league in receptions.

Again, the youngster is good, but saying that he'd pull something like that off seems to be a little misguided, as Cobb is somebody who often gets hurt. 

James Jones' time in Green Bay likely over

James Jones' time in Green Bay is likely over, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Bob McGinn reports. According to McGinn, the Packers are yet to offer the 29-year old receiver a new contract and, "in all likelihood," never will. Jones has played each of his first 7 NFL seasons with the team, catching a total of 310 passes for 4,305 yards, so this definitely a big deal. 

Now overall, I've liked having Jones on the team, but really, he's not that good. He's basically just another Greg Jennings, meaning that he's only as good as his QB is. So yea, I guess I'm fine with this decision. I'll still miss Jones a little, but in the end, his absence probably won't affect anything that much. 

Re-Signing Nelson a Packers offseason priority

Re-Signing star WR Jordy Nelson is a Packers offseason priority, NFL.com's Kevin Patra reports. Nelson, 28, has just one year and $2.5 million left on his current contract, so the fact that this news is beginning to be come out isn't at all surprising. 

Through six career seasons (all with Green Bay), Nelson has caught an impressive 302 passes for a nice 4,590 yards, so yea, if it were up to me, I'd re-sign this guy as soon as possible. I mean, he's obviously pretty good on track to getting even better, so why wouldn't anyone want him? 

Cobb would "love" to sign a long-term deal with the Packers

When asked recently by NFL.com's Dan Hanzus if he wants to sign a long-term deal with the Packers sometime in the future, Green Bay WR Randall Cobb made it clear to the media for the first time that yes, that's what he wants. 

"I would definitely love that," Cobb said. "But unfortunately that won't be my decision. That will be on the team to come to me with that decision."

Now while that last sentence probably is true, that quote, in my opinion, pretty much locks Cobb in Green Bay for many years to come. I mean, the Packers won't let a great receiver like him leave when he doesn't want to, wouldn't you agree?

Nelson to make extra $500k in 2014

Recently, PackersNews.com published an interesting article about Packers WR Jordy Nelson. Apparently Nelson, who caught a pretty incredible 85 passes for 1,314 yards this season, will be making an extra $500,000 in incentives next year, which I'll admit I find to be amazing. I mean, I knew he was good, but I didn't know he had that many catches. 

Seriously, look at his 2013 stats. He had career highs in catches, yards, yards per game (82.1), and first downs (60), while also impressively not fumbling once. Now knowing that, I almost feel that this guy deserves more incentive cash, because he clearly is a superstar.