The General Director of Green Bay Packers, Brian Gutekunst, was a casual Jaire Alexander corner, returning to his team for the 2025 season, when on Tuesday was asked at NFL Scouting Combine.
“We’ll see, we are working on it,” said Gutekunst, Via Tom Silverstein from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “We will go through it when we go.”
Gutekunst told Silverstein that he would meet with John Thornton, Alexander’s agent, while in a combine in Indianapolis to facilitate determine the best path forward on both sides.
It is possible that Packers are preparing to ask Aleksander for a significant reduction in remuneration before the 2025 season and they will be ready to spend a corner veteran if his party refuses. Alexander played only in 14 of the possible 34 matches of the regular season in the last two seasons and left at least 10 matches in three of the last four seasons.
It is not clear if trade is an option, but Gutekkunst told Silverstein that Alexander did not ask.
“He loves Green Bay,” said Gutekunst. “He has a lot of energy when he is in the building. It is still nearby. We will go through it and see where it leads. “
The injuries frustrated both the player and the team. In 2024, Alexander wounded at the knee in Jacksonville at the 8th week, and then tried to return after saying goodbye in week 10, just to bear the failure of 10 snaps. He finally returned to training, but he never played in the regular season again, and his season officially ended when he underwent surgery and was placed in the injury reserve.
In 2023, Alexander left several games with different injuries, and then he was suspended to one game for harmful behavior for the team.
Alexander, two-time All-Pro (2020, 2022), has two years for his current contract.
Gutekunst called Alexander a “elite player” and “talented player” and said that he “does everything he could play” despite the injury.
Packers must now weigh whether the history of Alexander’s injuries and the potential of future injuries act with his currently planned number of remuneration ceiling. And Alexander must determine if he wants to stay in Green Bay in a long term.
