The Green Bay Packers have signed veteran Pro Bowl nose tackle Kenny Clark to a three year, $64 million contract extension – Clark’s agents, Doug Hendrickson and CJ LaBoy of Wasserman, told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Clark’s new deal will pay him $29 million in 2024 and could bring Clark’s career earnings to over $150 million.
Clark, 28, is coming off a strong 2023 campaign where he registered a career-high 7.5 sacks which earned him his third Pro Bowl nod.
Green Bay’s new defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley is switching the Packers to a 4-3 base defense, away from the 3-4 defensive scheme that they had been running for the past 15 years, and Clark is looking forward to the change.
“It’s going to be really good,” Clark said back in May (h/t ESPN). “It’s one of the things where all my career I’ve been kind of playing this way but in more of a controlled way. And I think now this is giving us a chance to shut all that other stuff off. Just use your ability and just go up the field and be disruptive. I just think with my get-off and how I am, I think it’s going to suit me well.”
Clark’s durability has been valuable to the Packers, as he has rarely missed any games, clocking 16 starts in 2021, and 17 regular-season starts in 2022 and 2023.
