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Packers Rumors: Ex-Vikings DE Everson Griffen Draws Interest from Greenish Bay

July 27, 2020

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Free-amanuensis defensive end Everson Griffen and the Light-green Bay Packers reportedly have common interest, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com.

Rapoport added that the Packers "were amid the teams" to show interest and that his sometime jitney, Minnesota Vikings caput honcho Mike Zimmer, had expressed a want to bring him back.

"I'd dearest to have him dorsum," Zimmer toldChris Tomassonof TwinCities.com over the weekend. "He's always been one of my guys. If that happens, it would exist great. Just I don't know where that's at right now."

Griffen kept open the possibility of a return to Minnesota in Apr:

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Griffen said adieu to the #Vikings in an Instagram post last month, but told me "never say never" on a return. Other teams accept questions about what happened in 2018. Some answers hither, and Griffen says if they call him, he's an open book. A top pass rusher yet available. https://t.co/3HlZdLuVQV

If he went to the team'south divisional rival in Green Bay, it would be a double whammy for the Vikings to lose a key laissez passer-rusher and have to face him twice a year. The 32-yr-onetime is a iv-time Pro Bowler who posted 41 tackles, eight sacks and an interception in 2019.

He'due south posted eight or more sacks 6 times in his career, all of which has been spent in Minneapolis afterwards being drafted in the fourth round out of USC in 2010.

The Packers had a solid laissez passer rush in 2019, headlined by outside linebackers Za'Darius Smith (13.5 sacks) andPreston Smith (12 sacks). NFL teams can never have too many players capable of getting after the quarterback, however, and nicking Griffen from the Vikings would obviously sweeten the deal.

Granted, other teams around the NFL might view Griffen as player worth targeting at this late stage in free agency and as a more than affordable choice to fellow free amanuensis Jadeveon Clowney. That could help create a squeamish market for Griffen, even at this signal in the summer with training camps about to begin.