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Acme Packing's pessimistic (and accurate) view of the Oline situation now and next year:
https://www.acmepackingcompany.com/green-bay-packers-analysis/74421/the-packers-offensive-line-is-only-going-to-get-worse

The premise:

The Green Bay Packers’ offense is sputtering. They have no idea how to handle split-safety looks that take the extra coverage defenders into the deeper portion of the field. So far, head coach Matt LaFleur’s answers this year have been to check down the ball in the passing game and to run the football. Unfortunately, they haven’t been efficient at doing either.

Since the Steelers game, the Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles have committed to playing split-safety looks against Green Bay, which has led the Packers’ offense to produce just 20 total points over the last two games. Basically, Green Bay’s opponents have learned that if you just line up in a certain way, even with an average-ish defense, you can keep LaFleur’s Packers out of the end zone, because they aren’t efficient on the ground or in the yards after the catch department.

First of all, the Packers are now out their starting center in Elgton Jenkins, who dropped out of the Eagles loss with a fractured leg. Because of Green Bay’s highly leveraged cap situation, Jenkins is likely to be cut next year for $20 million in cap relief. Even with the release of Jenkins, if all of the Packers’ nearly two-dozen unrestricted and restricted free agents leave the roster and Green Bay backfills them with minimum contract players, the team will be right around $0 in cap space after they sign their rookie draft choices. Help isn’t coming.

You have to understand this: This is the most talented the team is going to be for about the next four years. Green Bay’s roster decay starts the day the 2026 new league year begins. The Packers’ current players are only going to become more expensive to keep, and losing out on high draft picks via the Micah Parsons trade (which I would still do today, by the way) isn’t going to help the situation.

This is going to hit the offensive line the hardest and the earliest.

Beyond center Elgton Jenkins, left tackle Rasheed Walker, rotational starter Sean Rhyan and swing tackle Darian Kinnard are all expected to hit the open market in 2026

There’s a real chance that Green Bay’s offensive line in 2026 looks something like: Jordan Morgan, Aaron Banks, Jacob Monk, Anthony Belton and Zach Tom (left to right).

Honestly I actually really like that projected starting Oline for next year. (Banks being the weak spot still though) We'll just have absolutely no depth barring drafted players

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We can always find a guy like Kinnard for a cheap depth.