/>Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesAcme Packing Company homepageHorizontal - WhiteAcme Packing Companya Green Bay Packers communityFollow Acme Packing Company online:Follow Acme Packing Company on TwitterFollow Acme Packing Company on FacebookFollow Acme Packing Company on InstagramLog in or sign upLog InSign UpSite searchSearchSearchAcme Packing Company main menuFanpostsFanshotsSectionsPackersOddsAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 321 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections The APC PodcastPackers Film RoomFantasy Football Adviceweakness to strengthNew http://www.greenbaypackersteamonline.com/darnell-savage-jr.-jersey ,20commentsSavage and Amos anchor the back end as three players stick as backups.CDTIn 2019, the Green Bay Packers’ roster looks very different from how it appeared at the end of the 2018 season. A large group of free agents, draft picks, and undrafted rookies will come to training camp to challenge for roster spots and a role on the team’s regular season 53-man roster. Over two weeks, Acme Packing Company will break down the roster position-by-position and reveal our compiled predictions for the 53-man roster.Kentrell Brice and Ha Ha Clinton-Dix (with a dash of Josh Jones) made up the early season safety battery for the Packers in early 2018. Brice was an undrafted free agent overmatched in the modern NFL, especially when paired with Clinton-Dix, who will forever serve as a cautionary tale about taking members of the Alabama secondary. In their place, the Packers will now start a technically sound veteran still in his prime and a hard-hitting first round rookie. The new blood will almost certainly be more exciting, more aggressive, and more effective.Starters: Darnell Savage and Adrian AmosI mentioned Clinton-Dix as a cautionary tale because the Alabama secondary has the benefit of playing behind one of the fiercest college front sevens there is. Clinton-Dix’s style of playing a ball-hawking center field works well in that scenario, and may actually work wellin Chicago behind Khalil Mack and company. When you pluck a safety from the NFL’s Alabama defense equivalent, you do run a risk that he is generating production in a similar fashion, and may struggle outside of it. In this case, you can put your fears at ease. Far from a passive participant, Amos was as aggressive and sure as any player on the Bears defense. He can move from safety valve to slot to run support seamlessly and should provide excellent versatility and confidence for the rest of the secondary. The Bears are justifiably higher on strong safety Eddie Jackson, but don’t underestimate Amos’ role on that great defense. The Bears were as strong up the middle as any team last season Rashan Gary Jersey , but a good chunk of that strength now plays in Green Bay.It’s easy to be overly optimistic about any first round rookie, but it’s hard not to see Savage stepping in and excelling. The learning curve on safety is pretty low, and one of the reasons he went as high as he did is his NFL-ready technique combined with his ability. I’m wrong about rookies all the time, and I could be wrong here, but his college tape is encouraging, and the Kentrell Brice bar is a pretty low one to clear.Backups: Raven Greene, Josh Jones, Natrell Jamerson Greene acquitted himself well enough in limited play last season, and should one of the starters suffer an injury he won’t kill you for a few games. Greene’s a smart player, and should remain a calming presence and solid depth. Jones, for all of the trouble he’s caused and lack of production, still may offer something in the right scheme. He’s still debatably the best athlete on the team, and as more of a quasi-linebacker/downhill guy, he’s worth taking one more shot. But only one more.Jamerson is a willing and able special teamer, and a better emergency safety than you’ll find on most teams. If he can stay healthy for another year there may even still be a decent prospect waiting to be uncovered.<hr class="p-entry-hr" id="2n9RX7">Released: Tray Matthews, Mike TysonThough it may sound as if I’ve made up both of these players http://www.thepackersfanshop.com/Darnell-Savage-Jr.-Jersey , nothing could be further from the truth. Matthews is an athletic project with a big school pedigree and may stick as a practice squad guy. Tyson has been used out of his natural position for most of his NFL career, and a return to safety gives him a puncher’s chance, but no more than that. The Raiders released veteran receiver Jordy Nelson, Marcus Thompson of TheAthletic.com reports.Nelson was due a $3 million salary, up to $500,000 in a roster bonus and a $100,000 workout bonus this year. After the Raiders gave Nelson a $3.6 million bonus early for salary cap purposes, Jon Gruden declared that Nelson would return.His $3 million salary for 2019 was scheduled to become fully guaranteed if he was on roster Friday, Michael Gehlken of the reports. Nelson, 33, became the odd-receiver out after the Raiders upgraded the position with a trade for Antonio Brown and the signing of Tyrell Williams.Nelson signed a two-year, $14.2 million deal with the Raiders a year ago after the Packers cut him.He appeared in 15 games and made 63 catches for 739 yards and three touchdowns last season.Now, Nelson hits the free agent market again, and the Raiders have not ruled out re-signing him to a reduced salary, according to Gehlken.