The Green Bay Packers have never really been major players in free agency. While they, like every team, fill their roster with free agents every year, they rarely pursue major names/impact players. Sure, undrafted free agents like Willie Wood and Tramon Williams have gone on to be franchise greats. Adding a big name on the market, though, is rare in Green Bay. In a recent interview on the “Rise and Schein” podcast, future NFL Hall of Famer and three-time Defensive Player of the Year JJ Watt revealed that he was interested in signing with the Packers.
JJ Watt Had Interest in Signing with the Green Bay Packers
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After spending the first 10 years of a storied NFL career with the Houston Texans, former Wisconsin Badgers star JJ Watt became a free agent for the first time. Many fans of the Green Bay Packers wanted to see their hometown hero come and finish his legendary career with the team he grew up cheering for. As it turns out, that was something Watt was interested in as well. Watt told Adam Schein:
“There’s certainly a part of me that thought about [playing for the Packers]. There’s a story for another day…I can’t share. That’s a story for like a memoir someday. There was certainly a thought for that. It’s just sometimes don’t materialize in a way that it all is gonna, you know, sometimes it just doesn’t materialize.”
Now I don’t know about you, but I am dying to know that story. It would have been great to see Watt in the Green and Gold, though it is doubtful the Packers could have afforded him. In any case, Watt would have been arguably the third-greatest player to sign with Green Bay as a free agent, following Reggie White and Charles Woodson, of course.
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