That the Packers had told him with six weeks left in the 2016 season that they would not be re-signing him.

“It was eye-opening,” Hyde admitted to Syracuse’s The Post-Standard last December. “It was like somebody stabbed me in my back, because I still had to play for that team for the next whatever. But I played my best football I’ve ever played. Maybe when I get stabbed in my back it makes me play a little better.”

There’s certainly no debating how well Hyde played during his final games in Green Bay, as he was one of the defense’s few true playmakers down the stretch, intercepting four passes in the final seven games (including playoffs) and delivering pass breakups at key moments. His goal-line interception in the regular season-ending
win in Detroit was a huge play, as was his interception against Dak Prescott in the third quarter of the playoff victory at Dallas that year.

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