The man who has held an all-time Packers record for longer than

most NFL teams have existed has died. Bobby Dillon was 89.The team announced Dillon’s passing on Wednesday; he passed on August 22. From 1952 through 1959 Kenny Clark Color Rush Jersey , Dillon played safety for Green Bay. Dillon intercepted 52 passes.In three different seasons, Dillon had nine interceptions. Dillon was named to the team’s 50th anniversary squad in 1969, Green Bay’s all-modern era team in 1976, and the franchise’s all-century team in 1999.Dillon had planned to retire after the 1958 season, but new coach Vince Lombardi persuaded him to play one more year. Dillon could be a very good candidate for the 2020 Hall of Fame supersized “let’s clean up our past mistakes” class.“Look what he did,” former Packers G.M. Ron Wolf said in 2008, via Cliff Christl of Packers.com. “Six years on a first team all-pro. [Detroit’s] Yale Lary got in there because he was a really good player https://www.thepackersfanshop.com/Mason-Crosby-Jersey , but he also was an exceptional punter. But Dillon played on a much poorer team and he had six years he was All-Pro.” Offseason programs are getting started in the NFL today, and the Packers are giving their players millions of reasons to attend voluntary workouts.The two biggest workout bonuses in any NFL contracts this year are the $750,000 bonus in Packers linebacker Za'Darius Smith‘s new contract and the $650,000 bonus in Packers linebacker Preston Smith‘s new contract, according to Field Yates of ESPN.By putting such big workout bonuses in player contracts, Packers General Manager Brian Gutekunst is following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Ted Thompson Kyler Fackrell Jersey , who regularly put big workout bonuses in players’ contracts.It makes sense for the Packers in particular because Green Bay, Wisconsin, isn’t exactly America’s hottest spring break destination. It’s probably easier for a team like the Miami Dolphins or Los Angeles Rams to convince players to come to town for voluntary workouts in April than it is for a team located in Green Bay.NFL players get a standard pay of $175 a day for participating in offseason workouts. For minimum-salary players, that’s a nice enticement — not to mention that a lot of those minimum-salary players are desperate to take every opportunity they can to impress their teams, as there’s no guarantee they’ll make the roster in the regular season.But for highly paid veterans who don’t really need the money and know they’re going to make the team, a workout bonus is an inducement to show up even for work that is voluntary.