Clay Matthews News

All we know for sure is that on May 21 -- more than two months before training camp and 109 days before the start of the regular season -- Mike Neal was working as an outside linebacker during a Green Bay Packers organized team activity .

Nonetheless, the Packers are experimenting. At Tuesday's organized team activity practice, Neal worked at outside linebacker.

The 2013 championship season in the National Football League will mark the sixth since Brett Lorenzo Favre's less than glorious departure from Green Bay.

Packerseverywhere.com recently held a contest, the Ticket Takeover Contest, for Green Bay Packers fans to submit their best Packers-related photo to a contest to determine which would be used on tickets to a selected Packers game in 2013.

In 2003, the NFL scheduled the Minnesota Vikings as the Green Bay Packers ' first opponent in the renovated Lambeau Field.

Kansas State Wildcats running back Angelo Pease could be one of the value players that Ted Thompson is so known for finding.

Ted Thompson has his game face on most of the time, though many times it's difficult to read what the man is thinking.

The south end zone at Lambeau Field will be finished this fall and will bring about 8,000 additional fans to Green Bay.

The Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers at the end of their game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV in Arlington, Texas Sunday February 6, 2011.

May 10, 2013; Green Bay, WI, USA; Datone Jones works out during the Green Bay Packers rookie orientation weekend.

Green Bay Packers Clay Matthews swags a bit on the edge after he sacks Chicago Bears QB Jay Cutler during the NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and The Chicago Bears, Sunday, Dec.

A lot of the spotlight surrounding Packers' rookie camp over the weekend was on first and second round picks Datone Jones and Eddie Lacy, but Lacy won't be the only rookie running back to watch this off-season. Ted Thompson traded up to take Johnathan Franklin in the fourth round.

Aaron Rodgers will once again lead the Packers onto the Lambeau Field turf this summer for the annual Packers Family Night.

Wes Hodkiewicz is one of the hardest-working Packers reporters out there, and he broke a story this morning that will apparently affect the way the Packers schedule the few remaining spots that are available on the roster.

In this photo taken Tuesday, May 23, 2012, Green Bay Packers' Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews, join former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer and ESPN interviewer Jeremy Schaap to talk and answer questions from the audience during the MACC fundraiser at the Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee.

The first-round draft pick from UCLA took part in the team's rookie camp, though he was one of the team's two unsigned draft picks.

Rookie orientation camp wrapped up Sunday for the Green Bay Packers. Here are a few highlights from Mike McCarthy's press conference... "As I told the rookies at the end of practice today, I felt it was clearly one of our better rookie camps, if not the best," McCarthy said.

A year earlier, the Green Bay Packers now second-year outside linebacker had experienced that same amalgam of excitement and nerves and fear of the unknown that comes with the annual post-draft rookie orientation camp.

They won't get to test their mettle against the veteran players until the organized team activities and mandatory minicamp.

As many of you know, I've written many stories about Jerry Kramer. Jerry had a fabulous career in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers , and his list of awards and accomplishments is long.