Jaire Alexander, Packers Contract Resolution Reportedly 'Should Materialize Soon'

ESPN's Jeremy Fowler expects cornerback Jaire Alexander and the Green Bay Packers will reach a resolution "soon" as they continue to discuss a new contract.

The Packers didn't select a cornerback in the 2025 NFL draft until Tulane's Micah Robinson at No. 237, which Fowler sees as a sign Alexander will return "barring a unique trade offer or a contractual stalemate."

"A revised contract for Alexander, due $17.5 million in cash this year, to balance his injury history with his longtime status as an elite corner might be the most sensible play," Fowler wrote.

Alexander, a two-time Pro Bowler, has played just 14 regular-season games over the last two seasons due to injury.

He is heading into the third year of the $84 million extension he signed with the Packers after the 2021 season.

The cornerback played just four games that season due to a shoulder injury, but led the Packers in pass breakups in every one of his first three seasons.

Alexander missed just one game in 2022, earning his second career Pro Bowl nod while leading the Green Bay secondary.

He was limited to seven games by a back injury, shoulder injury and suspension in 2023, and held to seven appearances again in 2024 amid quadricep, groin and knee injuries. He underwent right knee surgery at the beginning of the calendar year.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Tom Silverstein reported on April 26 that "the Packers still were in the market to trade him and were waiting to see if a team might have interest after the draft."

"There is no plan for the Packers to bring Alexander back after deciding in February they were moving on and then shopping him to teams," Silverstein wrote.

According to Silverstein, there was at least one team interested in trading for Alexander, but only if the cornerback agreed to restructure his contract. Silverstein reported that he had so far been "unwilling" to accept the renegotiation.

ESPN's Rob Demovsky then reported on April 29 that the Packers and Alexander "continue to talk about a possible resolution, which could include a reconciliation to where Alexander plays for the Packers in 2025 after all."

"All options are still on the table: release, trade or return," Demovsky wrote.

Alexander is currently set to cost $24.6 million against the cap in 2025 and more than $27 million in 2026, according to Over the Cap. A post-June 1 cut would save the Packers about $10 million in cap space, per Over the Cap.

Head coach Matt LaFleur told reporters last Friday that Alexander wasn't participating in voluntary in-person workouts, but that the Packers were "trying to work through" his situation.