Given that he ended the 2017 season on injured reserve, Packers right tackle Bryan Bulaga wasn’t considered a lock to earn a spot on Green Bay’s roster for the upcoming campaign. However, Bulaga’s recovery has reportedly been “impressive,” tweets Ian Rapoport of NFL.com, and the 29-year-old offensive lineman is no longer on the Packers’ roster bubble.
Bulaga has been no stranger to poor injury luck during his NFL career, and his 2017 ACL tear was the second of his pro tenure (he missed the entire 2013 season with same injury). Indeed, Bulaga has only appeared in all 16 games twice during his eight-year run: once during his rookie year in 2010, and again in 2016. Due roughly $8MM in cap charges in each of the next two seasons, Bulaga could have also been viewed as a potential cap casualty, as Green Bay would save more than $6MM in both 2017 and 2018 by cutting him now.
At his best, Bulaga is one of the league’s top right tackles. A former first-round pick, Bulaga received top-seven tackle grades from Pro Football Focus in both 2014 and 2016. And while he slipped to No. 39 in PFF’s rankings a season ago, a multitude of injuries — even before the campaign-ending ACL tear — likely contributed to Bulaga’s ineffective play.
Although Bulaga is currently on the active/physically unable to perform list, he’s expected to be ready for Week 1. If he’s not available at any point during the season, the Packers would turn to veteran Byron Bell, Jason Spriggs, or Kyle Murphy to play right tackle.
I love it when a player visually resembles the majority of a team’s fan base.
So assuming you’re a Rays fan it’d be a picture of nobody since by their terrible attendance numbers they have no fans?
BOOM! Roasted!!
go pack go!
“You will lose.”
-Ivan Drago
More likely it would be a picture of a Red Sox or Yankees fan. (I used to live in Tampa)
Or a geezer
No, it be a picture of a wheat harvester since we just rotate crops from the farm system. Cute comeback tho, I’ve never been burned so bad by someone who’s blood type is sharp cheddar.
Rodgers cant be happy with the alternatives if bulaga is out again. Spriggs has handled it before but IDK. Scary situation in green bay if they cant keep guys off Aarons back.
“Green Bay would save more than $6MM in both 2017 and 2018 by cutting him now.”
So if they cut him today, they save $6 million last year? Something doesn’t add up…