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Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast

Watson Extension: $110.5M Deal Is Reasonable

Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast

AC Sports

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.7525 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ryan breaks down Christian Watson's four-year, $110.5 million extension ($27.6M AAV) and explains why it lands as a reasonable, team-friendly deal given the injury concerns baked into the numbers. He puts it in context of the exploding salary cap (top WRs now over $42M) and recent extensions like Drake London. Also covers Josh Sweat trade rumors, Malik Willis update in Miami, Robert Tunyon signing with the Steelers, NFC North injury news from Detroit and Chicago, and more offseason notes.

 

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0:00.0

Oh, ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast.

0:13.7

I am your host and resident panelist, as always, Ryan Schlipp. Check us out online,

0:18.2

packernet.com. Find me on Twitter, pack underscore datab.

0:23.3

Well, we're going to start off with the big news of the day. Christian Watson did get extended.

0:30.5

I don't think I'm going to spend as much time on this as I was anticipating. I was

0:33.9

spending a lot of time trying to really quantify everything.

0:39.6

Fricking, who cares, dude?

0:41.2

You know, I mean, look, if there's a big issue and people really want to start a fight over it

0:46.4

or complain about it or something, but I'm getting out in front of something that doesn't, as of right now, even seem to be much of a problem.

0:53.4

I did see, and this is probably why I decided to go into the dark side immediately,

0:58.1

the first thing I saw, when I clicked on the first link I saw, hey, he got signed.

1:04.9

Oh, no kidding. Click on it. First comment underneath there was something to the effect of,

1:09.0

oh, crap, I thought we were going to cut the guy. He sucks.

1:11.7

And it's, you know, a Packer fan.

1:16.5

It took me to a dark place.

1:19.3

But I don't know.

1:21.3

I mean, you know, I feel like there's pressure because it's big news that we have to spend a ton of time on it.

1:26.0

But there's not a ton of time on it, but there's not,

1:27.7

there's not a ton to analyze, honestly. You know, again, I don't know what other people have

1:34.3

been saying out and about. I'm guessing we've all been roughly on the same page. This was expected

1:38.6

to be done. I've been saying that for some time. I never, I don't think I ever really speculated

1:43.8

what the contract was going to be.

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