If Tucker Kraft is about taking a leadership role after the Green Bay Packers’ elimination from the 2024-25 season, Keisean Nixon is demanding a bigger cornerback responsibility.
The loss to the Philadelphia Eagles seems to have waken up a lot of Packers players as many of them are now discussing how they desire to have a bigger role moving forward to the team.
Nixon is among those. He no longer wants to be just a return specialist. He wants to be the main guy in his position.
“I want to be CB1,” he told reporters on Monday at the Green Bay facility.
“CB1 is not doing kick returns. That’s just what it is.”
Nixon’s role as a return specialist diminished this season due to the new rules introduced by the National Football League.
He had a total of 65 return attempts from the last two seasons but for this year, he only had 18. He was even the return yards leader in 2022 and 2023.
He excelled as a cornerback though, posting career-high seven pass breakups, a career-high and team-leading three forced fumbles, and an interception for 2024.
Keisean Nixon wants to discuss role with coaching staff
Nixon, 27, signed a 3 year, $18 million contract extension in March last year. That suggests his role is getting bigger.
He is taking the initiative as early as now. Nixon said he is going to have a discussion with the coaching staff and categorically said that he is done as a return specialist only.
“I’m kind of over it; I don’t really want to do it no more,” he said. “There’s going to be talks with the coaching staff and stuff like that, but I think it’s over with for me.
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