The Los Angeles Chargers have agreed a five-year deal with free agent center Corey Linsley, a source told Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.
The movement fills a huge gap for the loaders. Dan Feeney moved to the center last season as a goalkeeper after Mike Pouncey entered the injured reserve in September with a hip injury. Pouncey has retired this season.
Linsley won first-team All-Pro honors this past season, becoming the first Green Bay Packers center to do so from Jim Ringo in 1963.
He started 13 games, missing three due to a knee injury, but returning in time for the playoffs. He helped the Packers tie for second place in the NFL in the fewest allowed sacks and was part of the offense with the best scores in the NFL.
The 2014 fifth-round pick from Ohio State became an immediate starter as a rookie and has 99 regular seasons since that 2014 season. It spanned from the end of the 2016 season to the start of the 2019 season, when he was on the field for more than 2,700 offensive photos.
Linsley, 29, signed a three-year, $ 25.5 million extension with Green Bay at the end of the 2017 season.
He was one of two Packers offensive line starters to enter the 2020 season in the final year of his contract. The team signed All-Pro left-back David Bakhtiari for a four-year extension of $ 103.5 million in November. Bakhtiari broke his ACL in practice on December 31 and may not be ready for the start of the regular season.
Shelley Smith and Rob Demovsky of ESPN contributed to this report.