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Bulaga, entering his 10th NFL season, is the Packers’ longest-tenured offensive lineman by three years and one of only four remaining members of Green Bay’s Super Bowl XLV team. The 2010 first-round pick successfully returned last season from the second torn ACL of his career to make 14 starts at right tackle.
A Pro Bowl alternate in 2018, Linsley hasn’t missed a regular-season snap in more than two years, a noteworthy achievement considering Green Bay hasn’t had a backup who played the position in college during that span.
Joining Linsley and Taylor inside is free-agent acquisition Billy Turner, who made seven of his 11 starts at right guard for Denver last season. The 6-foot-5, 310-pound lineman now appears to be the frontrunner to settle Green Bay’s two-year carousel at the position.
The added benefit Turner provides is versatility. While a majority of his NFL career has been spent at guard, the 6-foot-5, 310-pound veteran has made spot starts at both tackle positions (four starts at right, one at left) since entering the league in 2014.
While the Packers would like nothing more than a healthy year for their starting five, General Manager Brian Gutekunst has assembled one of the team’s deepest and most diverse arrays of reserve linemen in recent memory.