Packers Free Agency 2016: Wednesday Rumors and Reports of Signings

At this point, 4:00 PM cannot come fast enough on the East Coast. At that time, all of the reported deals in place between NFL teams and free agents can start coming to fruition and we can stop with the silliness of the negotiating period that has taken place over the last several hours.

As expected, the Green Bay Packers have stayed pretty well off the radar over the past 48 hours, only popping into the headlines briefly for two main reasons: the re-signing of reserve guard Lane Taylor and the report saying that they have contacted running back Matt Forte. Aside from that, it has been all quiet on the Packer front, including where Green Bay's free agents-to-be are involved.

The same cannot be said for the rest of the NFC North. On Tuesday afternoon, reports started circling of the Chicago Bears nearing an agreement with former Broncos linebacker Danny Trevathan, and this morning the Detroit Lions are reported to have Bengals wide receiver Marvin Jones set to sign. The Vikings, meanwhile, were in on the Kelechi Osemele sweepstakes before the Raiders threw a truckload of money at him, but Minnesota did free up significant cap space by releasing receiver Mike Wallace.

Keep it here for any additional reports involving the Packers or the other NFC North teams.

Packers

Tuesday
Re-signed G Lane Taylor
Interest in RB Matt Forte

Wednesday
12:10 PM: Matt Forte is apparently drawing interest from the Jets and Dolphins (Ian Rapoport)
2:07 PM: Forte is reportedly going to sign with the Jets (Adam Schefter)
3:30 PM: Tendered exclusive-rights free agent TE Justin Perillo (Wes Hodkiewicz)

Thursday
9:15 AM: Forte's deal with the Jets is for three years and $12 million, with $8M guaranteed

Vikings

Tuesday
Released WR Mike Wallace

Wednesday
8:42 CT: Bengals expected to re-sign S George Iloka, who was a Vikings target (Ian Rapoport)
9:50 CT: Iloka re-signing in Cincinnati is a "done deal" (Rapoport)
11:30 CT: Vikings expected to sign former 49ers G Alex Boone (Adam Schefter)
12:10 PM: Vikings agreed to terms with former Lions reserve LB Travis Lewis (Peter Schrager)
1:10 PM: Minnesota re-signs FA-to-be DT Kenrick Ellis (Dawn Mitchell)

Lions

Wednesday
Reached agreement with WR Marvin Jones (Diana Marie Russini)
Jones deal expected to be worth about $8M per year (Ian Rapoport)
2:24 PM: Lions will re-sign DT Haloti Ngata to a two-year deal (Mike McCartney, Ngata's agent)

Bears

Tuesday
Pursuing ILB Danny Travathan and DT Akiem Hicks (Brad Biggs)

Wednesday
1:43 PM: Packers CB Casey Hayward was mentioned as a potential target for the Bears (Brad Biggs)
3:12 PM: Bears to sign Danny Travathan (Adam Schefter)

Other Relevant Free Agent News

11:40 AM: The Steelers and TE Ladarius Green are reportedly agreeing to terms (Adam Schefter)
Houston Texans to sign both QB Brock Osweiler (Broncos) and RB Lamar Miller (Dolphins)
New York Giants to sign DE Olivier Vernon (Dolphins) to 5-year, $85M deal (Mike Garafolo)

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