{"id":415825,"date":"2023-02-17T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415825"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:53:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:53:27","slug":"jones-to-stay-with-packers-after-reworked-deal-agreement","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jones-to-stay-with-packers-after-reworked-deal-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones to stay with Packers after reworked deal agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running back <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/aaron-jones\/\">Aaron Jones<\/a> will stay in Green Bay for the 2023 season after the Pro Bowler reportedly agreed to a contract restructure that includes a $ 5 million pay cut.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No matter what happens next year the Green Bay Packers will have one of their all-time greatest players in franchise history on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Who else wants to see Aaron Jones be a true career Packer?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a rare accomplishment, but he\u2019s a rare player. Here\u2019s to hoping it happens. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nDbIMmRwMr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nDbIMmRwMr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PackersHistory.com (@PackersHistory1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PackersHistory1\/status\/1626587866800476160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>By lowering his 2023 earnings, Jones also allowed the Packers to touch the structure of his deal &#8211; from the $ 11 million he is going to make this season, $ 8.52 million are in the form of a signing bonus.<\/p>\n<p>That means it will be prorated through multiple seasons \u2014 probably five, if the Packers included void years to lower this year&#8217;s cap hit.<\/p>\n<p>The move allowed the Packers to free up almost $ 12 million in cap space \u2014 Jones&#8217; cap hit is down from $ 20.02 million to $ 8.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this league, you can&#8217;t have just one [running back]. Obviously, having AJ [Dillon], it&#8217;s nice to have that one-two punch,&#8221; Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst mentioned last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aaron, when we got first here, you&#8217;re thinking, &#8216;Hey, this probably won&#8217;t last long because the way he&#8217;s built and his size,&#8217; and he just keeps on defying the odds.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running back Aaron Jones will stay in Green Bay for the 2023 season after the Pro Bowler reportedly agreed to a contract restructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415828,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17571],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Jones is under contract with Green Bay through 2024","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415825"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415825"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}