Cornerback was known to be an area of need for the Packers entering the 2026 offseason. An addition has been lined up early in free agency.
Green Bay has agreed to a deal with Benjamin St-Juste, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports. This will be a two-year, $10MM deal, he adds. Incentives could push the maximum value to $10.5MM.
The 28-year-old St-Juste will step in for Nate Hobbs, whom the Packers released Tuesday. St-Juste spent last season as a member of the Chargers, with whom he performed effectively as a rotational boundary corner and a regular special teamer. While logging a 34.97% defensive snap share over 16 games, St-Juste totaled 37 tackles, seven pass deflections and an interceptions.
Despite St-Juste’s limited role, Pro Football Focus ranked the 6-foot-3, 200-pounder 11th out of 112 qualifying corners in 2025. As PFF’s Mason Cameron notes, St-Juste led the league with a 90.1 grade in zone coverage.
Before his short but impressive stint with the Chargers, St-Juste was a Commander for the first four years of his career. Washington used a 2021 third-rounder (74th overall) on the the Montreal native and former Minnesota Golden Gopher. St-Juste lined up on the boundary and in the slot in Washington, where he started in 45 of 54 games.
In 2023, his best year as a Commander, St-Juste racked up 17 pass deflections in 16 starts. However, PFF ranked St-Juste as a bottom-five corner in 2024. A couple of months after the Commanders benched him late in the season, they allowed St-Juste to walk in free agency. He enjoyed a resurgence in Los Angeles under defensive coordinator Jesse Minter. Green Bay is expecting that to transfer to new D-coordinator Jonathan Gannon‘s system.
Connor Byrne contributed to this post.
Bye Hobbs