The deal avoids any hassle with exclusive-rights free agency."The Green Bay Packers have made their first signing of the 2019 free agency period. According to Michael Cohen of The Athletic Youth Ty Summers Jersey , the team has re-signed defensive lineman Fadol Brown to a one-year contract.The team claimed Brown on waivers from the Oakland Raiders late last season, and he made a few flash plays over the 2018 season’s final month. With just one year of accrued experience towards free agency, Brown was scheduled to be an exclusive-rights free agent when the season began White Ty Summers Jersey , and the Packers could have offered him a one-year tender for the league minimum salary to maintain exclusive contract negotiation rights.It is likely that this contract agreement is for the same type of deal: one year for the league minimum. It simply means that both sides were content with the arrangement and that Brown’s camp sees no need to try to negotiate for a longer deal — this provides him with an opportunity to remain with the team through the offseason and training camp with the chance to earn a roster spot in the preseason.The Packers have six other exclusive-rights free agents on their roster: Reggie Gilbert, Jake Kumerow, Justin McCray Davante Adams Jersey , Lucas Patrick, Adam Pankey, and Robert Tonyan. The team must submit tenders to them before the start of free agency on March 13th in order to retain those exclusive negotiating rights. Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy said at the league meetings in Phoenix Ray Nitschke Jersey White , Ariz. on Tuesday that they are in discussions with the Oakland Raiders about playing a preseason game in Canada this fall.“Still kind of up in the air. But it’s a possibility that we would either play most likely in Saskatchewan or Winnipeg,” Murphy said, via the team’s website.The Raiders being interested in playing a preseason game in Canada was previously known. It would be a Raiders home game should the exhibition game come together. A preseason game played in Canada would mean one fewer game played on a field with infield dirt in August as well.Rogers Centre in Toronto played host to several games – exhibition and regular season – featuring the Buffalo Bills from 2008-2013. BC Place in Vancouver was the last stadium outside Toronto to host an NFL game of any kind as the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers met in the 1998 preseason.The Packers last played preseason games outside the United States over two decades ago. They faced the Buffalo Bills in Toronto in 1997 before traveling to Tokyo Aaron Rodgers Jersey White , Japan to face the Kansas City Chiefs in 1998.