Packers cut OL Elgton Jenkins, open up $19.5M

GREEN BAY, Wis. — A yr after the Green Bay Packers moved Elgton Jenkins from left guard to heart, they’ve determined to maneuver on.

The Packers introduced Monday they’ve launched Jenkins, a transfer that may web the Packers greater than $19.5 million in further wage cap house for this season.

Jenkins, 30, had one yr remaining on a four-year, $68 million extension that on the time made him one of many highest-paid guards within the NFL. He made the Pro Bowl as a left guard twice (2020, 2022).

A yr in the past, when the Packers signed guard Aaron Banks in free company, they requested Jenkins to maneuver to heart. Jenkins skipped a lot of the offseason program partly as a result of he wished the Packers to regulate his contract to make sure he had extra assured cash to offset potential earnings losses that may come by altering to a much less profitable place. But the Packers refused to change their deal.

Jenkins began the primary 9 video games of 2025 at heart earlier than a fractured ankle on Nov. 10 in opposition to the Eagles ended his season.

The Packers knowledgeable Jenkins of his launch at some point after they signed his alternative at heart, Sean Rhyanto a three-year, $33 million contract Sunday.

With the discharge of Jenkins and the commerce earlier Monday that despatched Rashan Gary to the Cowboys, quarterback Jordan Love was left because the longest-tenured Packers participant nonetheless on the roster. Both Jenkins and Gary have been drafted by the Packers in 2019, one yr earlier than Love.