Keisean Nixon Wants to Prove Himself to the Packers Again After Cataclysmic Ending to 2025
Amid contract negotiations, the Packers' No. 1 cornerback wants to show that he's still exactly that.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Being a cornerback in the NFL can be a lonely life.
Whether isolated on an island in a one-on-one matchup with some of the league’s premier wideouts, or being tabbed as the scapegoat when things go wrong—it’s one of the two most challenging positions on the field next to quarterback.
That’s why Keisean Nixon wants to be compensated fairly for his services.
If that’s too tall a task for the Green Bay Packers, they’ll have to take it up with Nixon’s representation, Tory Dandy. Nixon, who is entering his fourth season as one of the Packers’ primary starters at cornerback, is on the heels of his first as a full-time player on the boundary. Before 2025, Nixon had shifted between the perimeter and the slot, most notably in 2024 while the Packers gauged how to manage Jaire Alexander’s mid-season knee injury.
Nixon is now penciled in as a No. 1 cornerback on the depth chart for the second consecutive season, even after the Packers invested a second-round pick in South Carolina’s Brandon Cisse. While Nixon missed the inaugural practice of the summer with a minor hamstring injury, it was Cisse who took the majority of the reps in his stead. However, Nixon was back on the field on Thursday.
Even after the ghastly ending to Nixon’s 2025 campaign, the Packers remain bullish on the savvy experience and tenacity the feisty 29-year-old can provide the secondary.
