The Green Bay Packers surprised us with an extension for Christian Watson.

It's sooner than we thought.

It's less money than we thought.

It's a win-win for both sides.

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Welcome inside Locked on Packers. I'm your host, Peter Bukowski, and I cover the Packers for The Leap. A newsletter I would

love for you. Thanks to everyone who joined us here today on Locked on Packers for this

surprise emergency podcast, Christian Watson, getting a four-year 110 million dollar extension.

We hope you like starting your day with us as much as we like starting our day with you here on Locked on Packers, the show for fans who know what happened. They want to know

why and how. It's a four-year, $110 million extension. I thought we just talked about this,

right? We thought, at least we here on Lockdown Packers thought,

we would be talking about a number that started with a three, a $30 million extension. That's

where I thought this could go. I thought it would be Alex Pierce plus. The extension, four years for

110, is 27 and a half.

But Christian Watson is on the books this year for 11,

which means it's really a five-year deal at 120,

which puts it more at $24 million a year,

which is less than T. Higgins got, it is high-end wide receiver to

money. And for the Packers, for all the reasons we laid out this week, they don't have

a proven player at this position, at outside receiver. They signed Jaden Reed, and that's great. He's a very

good football player, and he can do things in this offense that only he can do. Christian Watson can

also do things in this offense that only he can do. Let's start with block. He's the only plus

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