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Green Bay Packers Reportedly Set to Part with TE Jermichael Finley After Season

December 16, 2012   ·     ·   Jump to comments

Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is reporting that the Green Bay Packers will likely cut ties with tight end Jermichael Finley after this season.
McGinn wrote that unless something drastically changes in terms of Finley's production this last part of the season, the team will look to trade or just flat out cut the five-year veteran.
According to McGinn's sources, there is "no way" the team is willing to pay Finley's $14 million contract over the next two years.
Finley has been with the Packers since being drafted back in 2007 out of Texas. With just 464 yards and two touchdowns on the 2012 season, however, it's not difficult to understand Green Bay's decision.
This report comes just two days after Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher spoke out about the tight end on Sirius XM radio.
Urlacher explained on the station (via Sporting News): "Just like a couple of years ago, I think, [Finley] tore his ACL, and the Packers were actually better without ...

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