Josh Sitton: ‘Nothing insane happened’ between Pack, Sitton

The answer to the Giants’ prayers on their offensive line might have been answered by the football powers-that-be in Green Bay who chose to cut Josh Sitton, a three-time Pro Bowl guard.

First, Sitton will visit his former NFL North rival, the Chicago Bears, according to the report. Strong: We battled and never gave upHow this year’s Texas team is different than last year’sRivera: ‘We have to live in the now, and that’s 2016’Truex takes victory at Southern 500sc The Packers released Sitton, a thre. He’s won a Super Bowl Championship and been a second-team All-Pro selection on three different occasions (as well as a three-time Pro Bowler), yet the Packers found him and his projected $6.15 million salary for the upcoming season expendable.

The Packers tried trading him before eventually cutting Sitton.

If so, thank you, Green Bay. While the Bears will go with Sitton as their starting left guard in their regular-season opener Sunday at Houston, the Packers will start Lane Taylor in that spot at Jacksonville.

Long has been nursing a shoulder injury, but could return to practice this week prior to the Week One game in Houston.

To put the Colts salary cap chances in perspective (if they are even interested), the team now has $10.63M in cap space, which is enough to at least entertain a potential veteran player or two-although Sitton may ultimately very well command too high of a price-tag.

An offensive line with Sitton, Long, Larsen, and Whithair, is a lot better than a line with just Long, Larsen, and Whithair. Namely, left tackle David Bakhtiari, center J.C. Tretter or left guard T.J. Lang. If I were the Bears, I wouldn’t let Sitton leave today. Charles Leno is expected to start at left tackle, where he started 13 games in 2015. He’s still a very good player in the National Football League and I’m not the only one who thinks this. They re-signed Will Beatty, their former starting left tackle, but he has not played in 20 months after missing the 2015 season following surgeries to fix a torn pectoral and torn rotator cuff.

In eight seasons with the Packers, Sitton appeared in 121 games, starting 112 of them. Chicago signed Connor Barth to a three-year contract to replace Gould, who converted 85 percent (276-323) of his field goals and 99 percent of his extra points (379-383) in his 11 seasons with the team.