Packers free agent C Scott Wells might get the chance to test the open market.
Quarterback Matt Flynn and tight end Jermichael Finley have commanded most of the free agent spotlight this offseason in Green Bay, with it being widely assumed that the Packers would eventually come to a deal with highly valuable free agent center Scott Wells sometime in the process.
Not so fast, says Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
While mostly speculating on the issue, McGinn said his best guess would be that “the Packers will play with a new center next season.”
His reasoning?
A bull-headed approach from the Packers on the value of Wells, who has started 100 regular season games for Green Bay since being drafted in seventh-round of the 2004 draft, combined with an equally hot-headed response from the veteran center, who obviously thinks he deserves top-5 money at the position after a Pro Bowl season in 2011-12.
Simply put, the Packers do not think Wells is worth as much as the he and his...
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February 21, 2012
