Packers To Cut Nick Barnett

The Packers are going to cut LB Nick Barnett this week, which shouldn't come to much of a surprise as it will save Green Bay about $6.9 million in cap space. Barnett was only able to play in a handful of games last year, but he should be scooped up quickly as he is only 30 years old and is only a year removed from having 105 tackles, and 4 sacks.

The Packers should be fine as they made it just fine without him for most of last year, and still have a nice core of Matthews, Hawk, Bishop, and Zombo as their LBs.

Nick Barnett Out For The Season

Green Bay Packers linebacker Nick Barnett is out for the season after suffering a wrist injury similar to the one that ended Brian Urlacher's season last year, according to two NFL sources. ESPN

The injury bug has really struck the Packers this year who already lost Ryan Grant and Morgan Burnett for the year. Clay Matthews is the defensive leader of this team but Nick Collins was right up there. He is an old pro at 29 and constantly totals over 100 tackles a year. This is a major loss and the Packers upper management has to be a little happy they didn't pull the trigger on AJ Hawk so fast as he will be needed.