Could a get-together with former All-Pro security is sensible for.....

Green Bay, Wisconsin — Following the addition of two of the most sought-after free agents to the open market, general manager Brian Gutekunst of the Green Bay Packers might be almost done with his spending binge. At least until the draft of the next month.

Josh Jacobs, a running back, and Xavier McKinney, a safety, were both signed by Gutekunst to four-year contracts worth a combined $115 million; both additions strengthened roster spots that needed strengthening right now. For the first time in seven seasons, Jacobs bolsters a backfield led by someone other than Aaron Jones, while McKinney strengthened what is perhaps the team’s weakest position group. However, McKinney’s presence shouldn’t prevent Gutekunst and company from strengthening the Packers’ defense’s rear end. They granted Jonathan Owens and Rudy Ford, as well as five-year starter Darnell Savage, unrestricted free agency.

After spending his first four seasons in Green Bay as a fifth-round choice of the Packers, Micah Hyde is currently looking for his next opportunity. Smart talent is oversaturated in the safety market, and Hyde is no different. Even Justin Simmons, who was named to the Second Team All-Pro four times, with three of those selections coming in the previous three seasons, is waiting for his next assignment. Hyde was a former Pro Bowl player and a two-time member of the Second Team All-Pro. One of these elite safety will eventually become more and more affordable, providing the Packers and anybody else interested with the chance to acquire them at a rate that works for the franchise.

Reuniting with someone the Packers had severed connections with would seem a little strange, but that was the other administration. After the 2016 season, Hyde’s contract with the Packers expired, and general manager Ted Thompson decided not to extend it. As a result, Hyde signed a five-year contract with the Buffalo Bills, where he has played for the next seven seasons.

In the last three seasons, the Packers have only released players who later signed new contracts with them in three noteworthy cases. Wide receiver James Jones left the Packers in 2013, played for the Oakland Raiders for a season, and then returned to Green Bay in the summer of 2015 following Jordy Nelson’s anterior cruciate ligament tear in an exhibition against the Pittsburgh Steelers. One of the team’s all-time top rushers, Ahman Green signed a four-year deal with the Houston Texans after becoming a free agent following the 2006 season.

Green was let go following two dreadful seasons. With DeShawn Wynn on injured reserve, the Packers signed Green to a contract in October 2009 that would last the rest of the season.