By Rick
| Green Bay Packer Salaries |
| Player Position 2010 Salary 2011 Salary |
| Player | Position | 2010 Total Salary | 2011 Salary | |
| Greg Jennings | WR | $7,000,000 | $7,000,000 | |
| Aaron Rodgers | QB | $6,000,000 | $7,250,000 | |
| A.J. Hawk | LB | $4,124,000 | $1,000,000 | |
| Nick Barnett | LB | $4,000,000 | $5,500,000 | |
| Nick Collins | S | $3,349,500 | $2,600,000 | |
| Cullen Jenkins | DE | $3,200,000 | $0 | |
| Tramon Williams | CB | $3,168,000 | $5,450,000 | |
| Ryan Grant | RB | $3,000,000 | $3,500,000 | |
| Johnny Jolly | DT | $2,521,000 | $0 | |
| Matt Wilhelm | LB | $2,500,000 | $3,000,000 | |
| Brandon Chillar | LB | $2,350,000 | $2,000,000 | |
| Scott Wells | C | $2,250,000 | $2,750,000 | |
| Donald Lee | TE | $2,000,000 | $2,200,000 | |
| Brady Poppinga | LB | $1,950,000 | $2,050,000 | |
| Atari Bigby | S | $1,759,000 | $0 | |
| Daryn Colledge | OG | $1,759,000 | $0 | |
| Mark Tauscher | OT | $1,400,000 | $4,100,000 | |
| Ryan Pickett | DT | $1,200,000 | $2,700,000 | |
| John Kuhn | RB | $1,176,000 | $0 | |
| Jason Spitz | OG | $1,176,000 | $0 | |
| Jarrett Bush | CB | $1,100,000 | $1,400,000 | |
| Donald Driver | WR | $1,000,000 | $4,100,000 | |
| Chad Clifton | OT | $855,000 | $5,750,000 | |
| Anthony Smith | S | $700,000 | $0 | |
| Derrick Martin | CB | $650,000 | $750,000 | |
| Charlie Peprah | S | $630,000 | $950,000 | |
| Howard Green | DT | $620,000 | $765,000 | |
| B.J. Raji | DT | $562,500 | $955,000 | |
| Desmond Bishop | LB | $550,000 | $1,000,000 | |
| Mason Crosby | K | $550,000 | $0 | |
| Korey Hall | RB | $550,000 | $0 | |
| Graham Harrell | QB | $550,000 | $650,000 | |
| Brandon Jackson | RB | $550,000 | $0 | |
| Brad Jones | LB | $550,000 | $0 | |
| Quinn Johnson | RB | $502,275 | $480,000 | |
| Diyral Briggs | LB | $480,000 | $0 | |
| Jordy Nelson | WR | $475,000 | $565,000 | |
| Josh Bell | CB | $470,000 | $0 | |
| Jermichael Finley | TE | $470,000 | $555,000 | |
| Matt Flynn | QB | $470,000 | $555,000 | |
| Spencer Havner | LB | $470,000 | $0 | |
| Pat Lee | CB | $470,000 | $555,000 | |
| Josh Sitton | OG | $470,000 | $555,000 | |
| Erik Walden | LB | $470,000 | $555,000 | |
| Clay Matthews | LB | $395,000 | $660,000 | |
| Brandon Underwood | CB | $395,000 | $480,000 | |
| Jarius Wynn | DE | $395,000 | $480,000 | |
| Bryan Bulaga | OT | $390,000 | $405,000 | |
| Rob Francois | LB | $390,000 | $405,000 | |
| Justin Harrell | DT | $390,000 | $405,000 | |
| James Jones | WR | $390,000 | $480,000 | |
| T.J. Lang | OT | $390,000 | $480,000 | |
| Marshall Newhouse | OG | $390,000 | $405,000 | |
| Brett Goode | C | $327,000 | $560,500 | |
| Morgan Burnett | S | $320,000 | $405,000 | |
| Josh Gordy | CB | $320,000 | $405,000 | |
| Nick McDonald | OT | $320,000 | $405,000 | |
| Michael Neal | DT | $320,000 | $405,000 | |
| Andrew Quarless | TE | $320,000 | $405,000 | |
| Sam Shields | CB | $320,000 | $405,000 | |
| James Starks | RB | $320,000 | $405,000 | |
| C.J. Wilson | DE | $320,000 | $405,000 | |
| Frank Zombo | LB | $320,000 | $405,000 | |
| Brett Swain | WR | $315,980 | $0 | |
| Tom Crabtree | TE | $0 | $0 | |
| Evan Dietrich-Smith | OG | $0 | $0 | |
| Tim Masthay | P | $0 | $0 | |
| Dimitri Nance | RB | $0 | $0 | |
| Total | $77,095,255 | $79,545,500 | ||
| Some players may not be listed | $0 | $0 |
With the help of Spotrac.com and a variety of news articles and research, I have come up with the base salaries for 2011 Packers. There is almost $30 million in signing and roster bonuses and there is about another $10 million in soft or likely to be earned money from what I can see. Added to the base pay I would say Green bay is hovering around $118 million in salary without resigning any Free Agents or drafted players.
Looking at this I say Matt Wilhelm and Mark Tauscher are gone. That saves the Packers around $7.1 million. Also Donald Driver probably needs to resign a cap friendly contract to reduce his cap number down from $4.1 million to the $1.5 to $2 million mark. Either that or they cut and resign him depending on the new CBA language like they did AJ Hawk.
I would also say that Sitton and Crosby are the most crucial of FA signings. For those saying to cut Justin Harrel, his contract is the same as Practice Squad players now. Let him try to make the team. He knows the schemes and knows the terminology he just needs to stay healthy.
Barnett has an interesting contract. His base pay is high but no more roster bonus or escalators are left in it. It is a $5.5 million decision concerning him. I say keep him. The money is a lot but we need trained depth and an off the street veteran FA late in the season like Wilhelm got $2.5 million for 2010 and $3 million for 2011 to sign. That is equal to the 2011 Barnett contract. I would much prefer a healthy ILB/ Nickel LB Burnett then Wilhelm wouldn’t you?
So that is the salary structure and I am sure some kind of salary cap will be enforced when a CBA gets signed. What do you see? What do you think?