Greg Jennings Needs a New Contract

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Here’s an NFL rarity. Green Bay Packers receiver Greg Jennings won’t discuss a potential new contract until after the season is over. He doesn’t want to be a distraction to his teammates. Not even after quarterback Aaron Rodgers got his new deal this afternoon. Greg’s deal is not set to expire until after the 2009 season, but Monday is the deadline for NFL teams to apply any increase in a player’s base salary to the 2008 salary cap. This allows teams to use up any available room they have now. Well, the Packers have (ok, had) more than $20 million of salary cap space to burn and they could use up a good chunk of it to offer someone like Greg an extension. You know he would certainly appreciate it now, but he’s willing to keep things quiet and put the team first:

“I don’t want to be a distraction. I’m not trying to make a big deal out of anything that would take away from the team. I don’t want to do any of that. If there is something going on, I don’t even want to know about it.”

What a class act, especially considering that Greg (statistically) is one of the best receivers in the NFL right now (second in receiving yards and tied for 16th in receptions). All that while making a base salary of $445,000 this year. Give that man a new contract. But do it quietly.

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Photo: Newscom