Green Bay Packers are approaching a free agency in 2025 without free agents priorities, a immense amount of salary space and the need to add veterans to a adolescent, low-cost and growing list.
A year after signing the security of Xavier McKinney and the escape of Josh Jacobs in a free agency, the general director Brian Gutekunst is able to make another splash in 2025.
As long as the free Packers Wire agency passes through potential options, continuing with the corner of Asante Samuel Jr., trying to identify the advantages and disadvantages of every potential goal for Gutekunst.
Samuel, the second round of Los Angeles Chargers in the 2021 project, visited Green Bay Pre-Draft and has a clear coaching connection with Packers.
Let’s delve into the advantages and disadvantages of Packers following Samuel:
Professionals
– Samuel is only 25 years senior and has both initial experience and production history. It is a start of 47 matches in the turn of six career intercourse (two in 2021-23) and 37 broke up (at least 10 a year between 2021-23).
– Samuel spent the first three seasons working under the current coordinator of Packers Pass, Derrick Ansley in Los Angeles. Ansley was his position trainer in 2021 and 2022, and the Chargers defense coordinator in 2023. Knowledge is so significant in determining the seizures for players.
– Packers need competition and depth in the turnover, especially if Jaire Alexander is released or traded, and Eric Stokes goes out in a free agency. Most of the Samuel NFL experiences are outside as a peripheral defender.
– Samuel has two years of effective coverage on the corner. Produced coverage in PFF above 75.0 in 2022 and 2023.
– Eric Stokes has not broken the pass since 2021. Samuel consistently got his hands on football. It would be significant to improve the game from Stokes to Samuel.
-Samuel, son of the former NFL Asante Samuel corner, was in Green Bay during a visit before the draft in 2021. Personnel staff will have something close to full profile, especially with insight of Ansley from Los Angeles.
Defects
– Samuel was delayed for all games except four games in 2024, during a collision as part of the sting in the shoulder area. For Kris Rhim from ESPNSamuel said that the problem is something he had since he was born, suggesting that it could be a repetitive problem in contact sport.
– It is not clear how gigantic Samuel’s market will be, but adolescent turns usually prove a lot of money. An injury in 2024 may suppress his market, but Samuel will probably not be low-cost.
– Samuel is definitely on the smaller side. It is replaced for 5-10 and 180 pounds. Packers generally avoided smaller players on the corner.
– Conduct was a problem, perhaps because of its lack of size. According to PFF, Samuel left 36 career attacks and has a failed percentage of 16.7. This is very high and would create a potential responsibility.
– Samuel never finished the season with a defense assessment in PFF over 60.6.
– Samuel has only three fights for a loss and zero forced Fumbles. In the game of passing ball, but otherwise he is not a negative creator of the game. (For comparison, Keisean Nixon had eight attacks on losses and three forced fumble in 2024 alone).
– Chargers gave up many points in defense in 2022 and 2023, when Samuel was a starter. Last season, Samuel played only in four matches, but Chargers took part in defense of scoring No. 1 at Jesse Minter.
– Packers, such as Keisean Nixon and Carrington Valentine as peripheral turns, so spending money on a smaller player with a grave injury may not interest Brian Gutekunst.
