Caleb Harris
While Packers quarterback Jordan Love’s future and potential long-term extension take up much of the spotlight in Green Bay these days, another team leader is entering the final year of his contract in 2024: three-time defensive end Kenny Clark. Pro Bowl.
Clark is entering the final year of his current contract, a four-year, $70 million contract he signed on August 15, 2020.
“There have been negotiations, still ongoing,” Clark said Tuesday, via TMJ4 in Milwaukee, at the Packers’ mandatory minicamp. “But they’re talking, and that’s the only thing I could find out.”
Clark would love to finish his career with the team that drafted him 27th overall in 2016. NFL Draft left UCLA eight years ago. Since 2019, when current head coach Matt LaFleur and his staff took over Green Bay, Clark has served as one of the best defenders in football. All three of his Pro Bowls have come in the last five seasons, and he is one of eight defensive tackles in the entire NFL with 90 or more quarterback pressures and 20 or more sacks since 2019. Clark is in an exclusive eight-player club with the following seven other defensive tackles since 2019: Chris Jones, DeForest Buckner, Jonathan Allen, Fletcher Cox, Dexter Lawrence, Quinnen Williams and Grady Jarrett.
“Oh yeah, 100 percent,” Clark said when asked if Green Bay is where he would like to be for the rest of his career. “I love being here. I love my teammates. I love the organization. I hope everything works out.”
Landing a third NFL contract with the same team is incredibly rare because of the durability and production required to do so, but with Clark being drafted by the Packers when he was 20 years old, he still has a lot left in the tank at this contractual stage of his career. Green Bay general manager Brian Gutekunst had this to say on Tuesday. Clark has missed just eight games in eight NFL seasons and has played in all 17 games in each of the last two years.
“As far as Kenny goes, we’d love to keep him around,” Gutekunst said Tuesday on Cheesehead TV. “We’ll see how it all plays out here, but it’s crazy to think he’s only 28 with the amount of football he’s played with us. they are. He’s been very, very durable for us over this time, I think that’s something we’ll look at to see if we can do it.
However, Clark will have to wait until Love, who is entering the final year of his contract in 2024, signs a new long-term contract extension before Gutekunst and the Packers front office turn their attention to his potential next contract with the team. .
“Again, everything has to come together. Certainly Jordan’s contract, getting it done and knowing how it’s structured and how it will look over the next few years will be informative,” Gutekunst said. “Kenny still plays at a very, very high level. One of the leaders on our team. We would certainly like to have him around for a few years.”
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