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Packers Lose Reed to Seahawks; Will Get Compensatory Pick

The Packers lost a top interior pass rusher when Jarran Reed returned to the Seattle Seahawks.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. – Defensive tackle Jarran Reed, who provided some much-needed juice to the Green Bay Packers’ pass rush in 2022, is returning to the Seattle Seahawks.

According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Reed was given a two-year deal worth up to $10.8 million on Tuesday. A second-round pick by the Seahawks in 2016, he spent his first five seasons there, including 2018, when he had a career-high 10.5 sacks, and 2020, when he had 6.5 sacks.

Reed had 2.5 sacks in 17 games for the Chiefs in 2021 and 2.5 sacks in his one season with the Packers.

The sack numbers only tell part of the story. Reed finished second on the team with 14 quarterback hits – second-most of his career. Of the 100 interior linemen to hit our playing-time thresholds, Reed ranked 32nd in pass-rushing productivity, a Pro Football Focus metric that measures sack, hits and hurries per pass-rushing snap, and 40th in run-stop percentage, a stat that essentially measures impact tackles.

His 33 pressures matched his 2021 total in Kansas City while playing 144 fewer pass-rushing snaps. He finished second on the Packers (behind Preston Smith) with 10 stuffs (a tackle at or behind the line of scrimmage vs. the run).

The Packers have Kenny Clark to anchor the defensive line, and they’ll be counting on 2022 first-round pick Devonte Wyatt and 2021 fifth-round pick TJ Slaton to take big steps forward in 2023. And then they’ll have to replenish the position in a major way Why? Because, with Dean Lowry also a free agent, there isn’t another defensive lineman on the roster who has played a regular-season snap.

Reed signed a one-year, $3.5 million contract with Green Bay last offseason. That was worth a sixth-round compensatory pick to the Chiefs. The Packers figure to get a sixth-rounder in 2024 for losing Reed.

The Packers are plus-2 on compensatory picks. They also lost receiver Allen Lazard to the New York Jets. They have not agreed to terms with a free agent through the first day-plus of free agency.

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Bill Huber
BILL HUBER

Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.

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