4 former Packers players who are still surprisingly free agents

3. Mason Crosby, K

Now that it’s all but confirmed that he won’t be coming. back to Green Bay, it’s weirdly now a thing to say that Mason Crosby is a former Packers player. Perhaps even more so than with Rodgers, him playing anywhere else will take some getting used to.

As of the end of May, though, Crosby isn’t set to play anywhere else, which is frankly a bit shocking.

If the 38-year-old kicker had hit free agency after the 2021 season, it would’ve been less surprising if he was still on the market. Though he went 49-of-51 on extra points, that year saw the veteran booter post a career-worst field goal percentage of 73.5, going only 13-of-21 from 30-49 yards on the year.

But instead, the Packers showed faith and brought him back for the 2022 campaign and he bounced back, still missing two of his extra points on fewer attempts than the previous season, but converting 86.2 percent of his attempts with no misses on attempts 39 yeards or short and just one miss from 40-49 yards. Three of his four missed field goals on the year came from 50+ yards.

With teams cycling through kickers and while guys like Brett Maher, who was a disaster for the Cowboys in the postseason, are getting tryouts for clubs, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense why Crosby is still available in free agency. But with the way that cycle works, I’d have to imagine his reliability on the shorter field goals will get him a job somewhere in the NFL before Week 1.