JUST IN: Elite $94 Million Pass Rusher announced his intention to join the Packers, and head coach Matt LaFleur expressed his desire for a long-term deal for the elite pass rusher.

The arms race is on in the NFC North Division, where the Detroit Lions, Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears are all set to make huge personnel moves in either free agency, the NFL draft or both.

The Green Bay Packers have more over $44.5 million in 2025 salary cap space as of Monday, Feb. 10, which is 13th in the NFL but still behind all three of its divisional opponents by a substantial margin. The Packers may have a movable component in the secondary in cornerback Jaire Alexander, but they will also have to replace both he and cornerback Eric Stokes in a defensive backfield that suffered with injuries and performance over the past two seasons.

But it isn’t only the secondary that Green Bay has to get right this offseason if the team intends to retake the division from Detroit while also holding off a Minnesota group that won 14 games in 2024. The Packers also need to figure out a way to get more pressure on rival quarterbacks and cause more havoc in the process.

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby. Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero of NFL Network linked Green Bay to a potential trade for star defensive end Maxx Crosby, should the Las Vegas Raiders decide to genuinely commit to a rebuild this offseason.

“Crosby wants to win and be a significant cause behind the success. While the appointment of Super Bowl winner Pete Carroll was a step toward stability, the Raiders still don’t have a franchise quarterback and have a ton of work to do to field a competitive team,” Rapoport and Pelissero wrote on Sunday, Feb. 9. “Trading Crosby for a bounty of selections would be one way to hasten that process, and Crosby would welcome the change, particularly if it’s to a playoff team where he knows people (e.g. Green Bay). Crosby has two years and around $44 million remaining on the contract extension he signed in 2022.

” The deal Crosby signed was worth a total of $94 million, which is essentially a bargain based on his continuously high-end production. Crosby, 27 years old, has tallied 59.5 sacks and 105 tackles for loss in his six-year career (95 games).

He has earned Pro Bowl accolades in each of the past four seasons after placing second in NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year voting in 2019.