Jordan Love Pays Tribute to Kenny Clark After Packers Trade Him to Cowboys
And just like that, Kenny Clark’s time with the Green Bay Packers is over. Clark is now with the Dallas Cowboys, where he will continue his journey in the NFL. Clark was part of the shocking trade that sent superstar pass rusher Micah Parsons to Green Bay. In exchange, the Packers gave up Clark and first-round picks in 2026 and 2027.
It will be Clark’s first time in the pros playing for a team other than the Packers, who selected him in the first round (27th overall) of the 2016 NFL draft.
Clark will surely be missed by Green Bay fans and, of course, by his teammates.
Green Bay Packers’ Jordan Love shares Clark post after DT’s trade to Dallas
Following the Parsons trade, Packers quarterback Jordan Love hopped on social media to share a couple of Instagram Story posts. The first one was a fire-emoji post that shows an edited image of Parsons in a Packers uniform. The next one was a caption-less repost of Green Bay general manager Brian Gutekunst’s farewell message for Clark.
“Kenny will be greatly missed, and we wish him and his family nothing but the best in the future,” Gutekunst’s message read.
While it hurts for the Packers and their fans to see Clark go, given his long tenure in Green Bay, it was a no-brainer for the team to give him up for Parsons, who is a young and devastatingly talented linebacker, who might not have even reached his peak form yet in the NFL.
Clark leaves the Packers with 35.0 sacks through 140 games (126 starts) played with Green Bay.
Former 3rd Round Pick Named Chiefs’ ‘Most Surprising’ Roster Cut
The Kansas City Chiefs had to make the tough decision to whittle their roster down to 53 players earlier this week, and not all the cuts that occurred were clear and foreseeable to keen-eyed observers.
Breaking from standard practice, the team is currently only carrying 3 safeties on their active roster; 2024 fourth round pick, Jaden Hicks; 2022 second rounder, Bryan Cook; and 2023 fourth rounder, Chamarri Conner, with Mike Edwards the odd-man-out in the position group
And Jesse Newell of The Athletic believed that this was fairly unexpected and called it the Chiefs’ biggest surprise cutdown.
Mike Edwards Cut From Chiefs Roster ‘Suprising’
Newell believed that the coaching staff’s previously stated admiration for Edwards, along with his connection to the senior defensive assistant through his college days, makes him a borderline shocking omission from the final roster.
“Edwards, a seventh-year safety, has a lot of supporters in the Chiefs’ offices.” Newell wrote on Sunday, “That includes defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo — he has shared his admiration for Edwards’ ball-hawking abilities — and also senior defensive assistant Matt House, who was Edwards’ defensive coordinator at the University of Kentucky. Knowing all that, it was surprising the Chiefs cut the 29-year-old Edwards.
The Athletic’s Chiefs writer expressed that one of the core reasons behind this comes their belief in and desire to build up younger, versatile talents in the unit.
“That doesn’t mean Edwards won’t eventually be back on Kansas City’s practice squad, but the move still seems to signal the Chiefs have confidence in some younger players at safety, including cornerback/safety hybrids Chamarri Conner and Chris Roland-Wallace.”
What Do The Chiefs Look Like At Safety?
Bryan Cook is already a fairly established starter, whilst Jaden Hicks will look to take over the second safety position vacated by Justin Reid, who left for the New Orleans Saints in free agency back in March.
And whilst Kansas City are in a unique spot in that they only have three listed safeties on the roster, they do another player in nickel back, Chris Roland Wallace, who can cover at the position.
The team also have, in emergency situations, All-Pro Trent McDuffie, who is also capable at playing some snaps in that same role; a role that many thought he could ultimately end up playing in the pros when he came out of Washington in 2022.
Edwards is certainly a competent, experienced player at the position, and back in 2023 he started five games for the team and played a role in all 17.
But now entering his age-29 season, Edwards is not getting any younger, and it is not shocking that the Chiefs’ defensive coaches, who have cultivated an excellent secondary year-in, year-out, out of mid-round picks on rookie contracts, have gone with their rising talents over veteran entering his seventh year in the NFL.
