Gunzlingr
04-29-2003, 05:12 PM
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- The Green Bay Packers have cut 16-year veteran Frank Winters, but are expected to re-sign the center at a lower salary, according to newspaper and television reports.
Winters was released Monday, according to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee.
Winters would have made a base salary of $2 million this season. That salary and $473,000 remaining from a signing bonus in his 2002 contract would have counted against Green Bay's salary cap.
The Packers could re-sign Winters and pay him the $750,000 minimum for a player of his experience. Just $450,000 would count against the salary cap.
The 39-year-old has played the last 11 seasons in Green Bay.
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Winters was released Monday, according to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee.
Winters would have made a base salary of $2 million this season. That salary and $473,000 remaining from a signing bonus in his 2002 contract would have counted against Green Bay's salary cap.
The Packers could re-sign Winters and pay him the $750,000 minimum for a player of his experience. Just $450,000 would count against the salary cap.
The 39-year-old has played the last 11 seasons in Green Bay.
MORE (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/news/2003/04/28/roundup_ap/)