Packers RB Aaron Jones - Photo by Dairyland Express
GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) – The 2023 season will be played without Aaron Rodgers and several other veterans, but the Packers Pro Bowl running back is convinced they have everything they need to succeed.
“We’ve got everything we need here. If you think we’re in a rebuild, you’ve got the wrong team, the wrong place,” Jones said Tuesday during OTAs. “We know it’s going to take all 11 and we’ll have to depend on each other in all phases, but we’re hungry, we’re ready to prove a lot of people wrong. We know what people are saying. Everybody has an opinion and most of them stink.”
After going 8-9 and missing the playoffs in 2022, the Packers dealt quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets and allowed free agents Dean Lowry, Robert Tonyan, Jarran Reed, Allen Lazard, and Randall Cobb to leave. Mason Crosby, Adrian Amos, and Marcedes Lewis are still unsigned and are not likely to join the Packers in the future.
Star kick/punt returner Keisean Nixon agreed with Jones when he said, “Nobody in this locker room thinks of it as a rebuild,” Nixon said Tuesday. “This isn’t a rebuild. We are coming to win now.”
This spring, Jones signed a restructured contract to remain in Green Bay. Nixon re-signed with the team on a one-year deal.
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