NFL Insider Links Future Hall of Famer to Packers

After Micah Parsons suffered a torn ACL, the Green Bay Packers had a league-worst three sacks during the final three games of the regular season.

During that same span, Cameron Jordan had four sacks for the Saints.

Jordan remains a free agent, and the Packers are among the potential landing spots, according to NFL insider Jason LaCanfora.

“Jordan is going to Canton, Ohio, one day. He is coming off a 10.5-sack season and after spending years in the abyss with the Saints, he is driven by a ring above all else,” LaCanfora told Casino Guru.

“At age 37, this might be it. Green Bay badly needs fortification to its line, and with Micah Parsons injured for the first half of the season, having Jordan to move around inside and outside would be huge.”

Cameron Jordan Still Sacking Quarterbacks

Jordan will turn 37 a couple weeks before the start of training camp but remains a productive player. Is Father Time catching up to Jordan? Not based on the second half of last season, when he had 8.5 sacks, 11 tackles for losses and two forced fumbles in the final eight games.

Jordan is a living-legend type of player. With all 15 seasons spent with the Saints, he ranks second among active players with 132 sacks – Von Miller has 138.5 – and 22nd all-time. He is a three-time All-Pro and eight-time Pro Bowler.

After a couple down seasons with a total of six sacks and 10 tackles for losses in 2023 and 2024, he had 10.5 sacks and 15 TFLs last season. He was a bit of an all-or-nothing rusher, though, with PFF crediting him with 36 pressures. That’s 18 fewer than Rashan Gary.

The Packers have a glaring need on the edge after trading Gary to the Cowboys and losing Kingsley Enagbare in free agency. With Parsons almost certainly out of the lineup to start the season, Green Bay as presently constituted would line up for Week 1 with Lukas Van Ness, Barryn Sorrell, Brenton Cox and Collin Oliver as their four players on the edge.

Even when Parsons returns, there is no proven sidekick. The group of Van Ness, Sorrell, Cox and Oliver combined for 3.5 sacks last season. Van Ness has 8.5 sacks in three seasons.

New defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon led a rampaging Eagles defense to the Super Bowl in 2022. They had 70 sacks because of the strong depth. The Packers lack that depth; Jordan would help, especially if the young players don’t develop.

Durable Defender’s Future on Hold

Incredibly, Jordan has missed two games in his career.

“He is incredibly durable and, if they kept him on a pitch count, he is precisely the type of leader you would want for a postseason run,” LaCanfora said. “He’s opined about preferring to play for a warm-weather team … but money talks.”

The Saints drafted Jordan in the first round in 2011.

“We can still shake some things out,” Jordan said in December of returning to the Saints.

New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan (94) rushes Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love in 2023. | Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin / USA TODAY NETWORK

“I love this game so much, I think there's so much I can give to the game and when put in, I can still play at a high level. So, hey, I'll just take every opportunity like it's my last opportunity, and that's what I've been doing since Day 1. You never know when it's going to be over for you. Year 1, Year 2, Year 15 now. I just love being a part of the brotherhood.”

While Jordan would like to return to New Orleans, it will be a business decision, he told Terron Armstead recently on The Set with Terron Armstead podcast.

“You see guys my age re-sign to the team because that’s the only team they’ve ever been with and you’re like, ‘Hell yeah. We love that.’ But that’s to his situation. That may not be to my situation. …

“I know what I want to do, what I want to accomplish. If that doesn’t line up (with the Saints), that’s fine as well. Just because I love the city and the organization, doesn’t mean the organization or the city has to love me back. The city has and always will, but I’m just simply saying.”

Saints coach Kellen Moore sounded tepid, at best, when asked about Jordan’s future at the NFL owners meetings.

“We love Cam,” Moore said. “Obviously, we think the world of Cam and so, again, it's an offseason process, it's a free agency process that every team and player get to have. So, we obviously will let that process take its course. Obviously, we love Cam, and so we'll see where it takes us for him as his situation goes through.”

In eight career games against Green Bay, he has two sacks and four tackles for losses. He had five tackles, including one for a loss, against the Packers in 2024.

“He’s the ringleader,” Packers offensive line coach Luke Butkus said before that game. “Still doing it at a high level for 14 years. Respect him. Respect the hell out of him because he plays hard every single snap that he’s in there.”

Of note, free agents signed on the Monday after the draft do not impact the compensatory-picks formula.

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