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Not even\u00a0Micah Parsons\u00a0can say with confidence that he will be back from an ACL tear in Week 15 to start the season for the\u00a0Green Bay Packers, which means the front office\u2019s work at the edge-rusher position likely isn\u2019t yet complete.<\/p>\n

General manager\u00a0Brian Gutekunst\u00a0exercised the team\u2019s fifth-year option on former first-round pick\u00a0Lukas Van Ness\u00a0on Thursday, April 30. Van Ness was going to be on the roster for the upcoming campaign regardless, but the move indicates how the Packers see\/value the Iowa product in what will be a new defensive scheme under coordinator Jonathan Gannon, even despite his lack of traditional statistical production.<\/p>\n

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After Parsons and Van Ness, the room quickly thins. Given the team\u2019s situation regarding the premier position group, Matt Okada of NFL Network suggested the addition of\u00a0Haason Reddick, a former first-round pick himself (No. 13 in 2017) coming off a one-year deal with the\u00a0Tampa Bay Buccaneers\u00a0in 2025 that paid him\u00a0$14 million.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA potential solution is to put [Reddick] opposite Micah Parsons in a Green Bay defense coordinated by DC Jonathan Gannon. You know, the guy who was coordinating Philly\u2019s unit back in 2022, when Reddick recorded a career-high 16 sacks and 76 pressures,\u201d\u00a0Okada wrote Thursday. \u201cWith Gannon on the sticks and Parsons drawing all the attention on the other edge, Reddick could be unlocked for a renaissance season, and the Packers could field one of the scarier pass rushes in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Creating among the NFL\u2019s \u201cscariest pass rushes\u201d by adding Reddick is perhaps a bit of an optimistic take from Okada that heaps considerable expectation on Reddick\u2019s shoulders.<\/p>\n

He will play the upcoming campaign at 32 years old and strung together just\u00a0six tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks\u00a0across 13 games least season in Tampa. He added 34 total pressures, 29 QB hurries and a forced fumble, per\u00a0Pro Football Focus.<\/p>\n

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The upside of a Reddick addition in Green Bay is that situational edge-rushers have shown themselves a player type with uncommon\u00a0NFL\u00a0longevity. For instance,\u00a0Cameron Jordan\u00a0and his\u00a010.5 sacks\u00a0at age 36 last season \u2014 his highest total since 2021. Reddick is considerably younger and was a back-t0-back Pro Bowler in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n

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Spotrac projects Reddick\u2019s market value at\u00a0just shy of $5 million\u00a0on a one-year contract, which also means minimal financial risk on the shortest possible terms of commitment. The Packers are almost certain to add a player like Reddick to the position group, and he\u2019s as young and cheap as any of his pass-rushing peers still on the market.<\/p>\n

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As such, his connection to success with Gannon could bump Reddick to the front of the Packers\u2019 call-sheet ahead of training camp this summer.<\/p>\n

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Micah Parsons Can\u2019t Pinpoint Exact Return Timeline From ACL Injury<\/h2>\n
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It will be important for Green Bay to get some more edge-rush help in the door, particularly for the start of the season, after the team traded\u00a0Rashan Gary\u00a0to the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0for a fourth-round pick ahead of the draft.<\/p>\n

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Parsons recently spoke candidly about his potential to return for Week 1 and it didn\u2019t oversell the certainty of that outcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan, it really just depends,\u201d\u00a0Parsons said. \u201cI had a pretty severe injury. It just depends on how each phase goes for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I would say, I do feel as if I\u2019m ahead, or on track, to be there earlier in the season,\u201d Parsons added. \u201cIt\u2019s just hard to really pinpoint where or how each phase is going to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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