Packers Will Be Looking for New Punter

Zero2Cool
Elite Member Topic Starter

2 years ago

GREEN BAY, Wis. – What happens when you run out of cap space? You lose perhaps the best punter in franchise history.

Corey Bojorquez, an unrestricted free agent, will not be brought back. The Packers simply don’t have the cap space for a veteran punter. Acquired in a trade with the Los Angeles Rams after training camp, he played under the fourth-year minimum salary of $920,000. Heading into Year 5, Bojorquez will cost $1.035 million. A rookie, by comparison, will cost $705,000.

Green Bay has three kickers on the roster but no other punter.

Bojorquez ranked 11th in the NFL with a 46.5-yard average – the best mark in Packers history – and 17th with a 40.0-yard net average. His 82-yard punt at Chicago was the longest in the league. He had 18 punts inside the 20 with four touchbacks. Those were all improvements over the man he replaced, 2018 fifth-round pick JK Scott.

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Damn. I'm guessing that failure to learn how to hold on kicks really did his ass in.

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Mucky Tundra
Veteran Member

2 years ago

Damn. I'm guessing that failure to learn how to hold on kicks really did his ass in.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool

That and the cold weather killing his punts late in the season.

“Nah. I like having the island. It’s pretty cool...not too many visitors”

"I’ve got it." -Aaron Rodgers

beast
Select Member

2 years ago

Damn. I'm guessing that failure to learn how to hold on kicks really did his ass in.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool

I'm confused, how do we know he won't be back if there is no report he's signing with someone else?

Are the Packers not offering him a contract? or are they clearly being out bid?

My guess is the Rams releasing their Punter was a sign they wanted Bojo back.

What stinks is if the Packers wouldof signed WR Beckham, they possible would of made it past the 49ers instead of the Rams.

Zero2Cool
Elite Member Topic Starter

2 years ago

Originally Posted by: beast

I'm not sure what you are confused about. Bill Huber is saying the Packers will not re-sign him. Generally, agents will disclose that to a reporter to get their clients name out there as someone that is available. If Packers were outbid, then the headline would have probably been Packers lose Punter to Team X. 🤷‍♂️

beast
Select Member

2 years ago

I'm not sure what you are confused about. Bill Huber is saying the Packers will not re-sign him.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool

The why, is missing, that's why I'm confused, normally you get where they are signing, not where they aren't signing.

Generally, agents will disclose that to a reporter to get their clients name out there as someone that is available. If Packers were outbid, then the headline would have probably been Packers lose Punter to Team X. 🤷‍♂️

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool

And maybe that's the answer, but he didn't state that.

Also, if the Packers weren't outbid, wouldn't they be in the race still?

wpr
Preferred Member

2 years ago

That's too bad. I like Corey. Except his holds on kicks.

nerdmann
Premier Member

2 years ago

Does Aaron not like him? Wtf man

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”

Pugger
Member

2 years ago

Damn. I'm guessing that failure to learn how to hold on kicks really did his ass in.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool

I don't know if I'd say Bojorquez was the best punter in our franchise's history...

beast
Select Member

2 years ago

I think Bojo was the best in recent memory, at minimum since Rodgers has been QB, maybe Favre too?

earthquake
Member

2 years ago

#10

The why, is missing, that's why I'm confused, normally you get where they are signing, not where they aren't signing.

And maybe that's the answer, but he didn't state that.

Also, if the Packers weren't outbid, wouldn't they be in the race still?

Originally Posted by: beast

They had him for the vet minimum and cut him. This means it's not possible to sign him to a lesser contract. So anyone willing to pay at least the vet min will sign him. That wouldn't be the Packers, since they cut him in an apparent cap-saving move.

That's how I read the situation at least, but I could be wrong. If they're cutting him just to resign after the initial cap-clearing period (as you mentioned in the Cobb thread), that would make some sense.

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