{"id":762096,"date":"2026-07-14T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/762096\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:34:14","slug":"packers-sign-lb-isaiah-mcduffie-to-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/762096\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers sign LB Isaiah McDuffie to contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Bay Packers have signed LB <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.packers.com\/team\/players-roster\/isaiah-mcduffie\/\" title=\"Isaiah McDuffie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah McDuffie<\/a> to a contract extension. General Manager Brian Gutekunst announced the transaction Monday.<\/p>\n<p>McDuffie (6-1, 227), a sixth-year player out of Boston College, was originally selected by the Packers in the sixth round (No. 220 overall) of the 2021 NFL Draft. He has played in 80 regular-season games for Green Bay with 38 starts, recording 286 tackles (155 solo), 11 tackles for a loss, two sacks, nine QB hits, an interception, five passes defensed and a forced fumble. McDuffie has also contributed on special teams, registering a team-high 34 tackles and a fumble recovery. He is one of only two players in the league (Texans LB E.J. Speed) to appear in 80-plus games and register 275-plus tackles on defense (286) and 30-plus tackles on special teams (34) since 2021. McDuffie has played in five postseason contests, starting two and has posted 14 tackles (eight solo), a half-sack, two QB hits and seven tackles on special teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers have signed LB Isaiah McDuffie to a contract extension. General Manager Brian Gutekunst announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[11977,326185,4718,13041,26061,26062,349,99],"class_list":["post-762096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-homepage-cp","tag-isaiah-mcduffie","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-national-feature","tag-news-press-releases","tag-news-transactions","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}