Jacksonville’s Logan Cooke is now the NFL’s highest-paid punter.

Cooke has signed a four-year, $16 million contract extension with the Jaguars, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Monday because neither side released contract details.

A second-team All-Pro selection in 2024, Cooke had been entering the final year of his second deal with the team. He had been scheduled to make $3 million in 2025 and now will get a raise after making his first Pro Bowl last year. It had been unclear how Jacksonville’s new regime of general manager James Gladstone and coach Liam Coen would handle Cooke’s contract situation.

The Jaguars drafted Cooke in the seventh round from Mississippi State in 2018, and he’s the team’s longest-tenured player.

Cooke, who will turn 30 next month, established career highs with a gross putting average of 49.4 yards and a net punting average of 44.8 yards last season.

Cooke had ranked seventh in the league among punters in average contract value. He now tops the list ahead of Seattle’s Michael Dickson, whose contract averages $3.67 million annually.

Cooke has a net punting average of 43.5 yards, the highest career mark in the NFL since the statistic began being tracked in 1976. His career gross punting average of 47.4 yards is the highest in franchise history and the sixth best in the NFL since 1939.

Cooke also has placed 41.8% of his punts inside the 20-yard line, the highest mark in team history.

Jaire Alexander has been released by the Green Bay Packers, ending a seven-year run in which he emerged as one of the NFL’s top cornerbacks before injuries limited his availability.

The Packers announced the move Monday, a day before they open their mandatory minicamp. The decision is expected to clear about $17 million in cap space.

“In his seven seasons with the Packers, Jaire established himself as one of the premier players in the NFL at one of the game’s most challenging positions,” Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said in a statement. “His contributions to our organization were felt on the field, in the locker room and in our community, and he will be missed. We appreciate all he gave, and we wish him all the best moving forward.”

Alexander’s future with the Packers had been the subject of much speculation throughout the offseason because of his hefty contract and recent injury history. Alexander, who has 12 interceptions, had two years remaining on the four-year, $84 million contract extension he signed in May 2022.

The 28-year-old Alexander has spent his entire career with the Packers, who selected him out of Louisville with the 18th overall pick in the 2018 draft. Alexander made Pro Bowls in 2020 and 2022, but he has played in only 34 of the Packers’ 68 regular-season games over the past four years.

The Cincinnati Bengals are releasing linebacker Germaine Pratt, two people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.

The people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the move has not been announced.

NFL Network first reported Pratt’s release. The move comes on the eve of the Bengals mandatory minicamp, which starts today.

The move gives the Bengals $5.6 million in salary cap savings.

Pratt, who was going into the final season of a three-year contract, was one of the longest-tenured Bengals but requested a trade during the offseason. He was a third-round pick in 2019 and started 88 games over six seasons.

The Houston Texans have signed former Cleveland Browns star running back Nick Chubb, the team announced on Monday.

Chubb made four Pro Bowls in seven seasons with Cleveland, but was limited by injuries the past two years. He suffered a left knee injury in Week 2 at Pittsburgh in 2023 and remained sidelined until Week 7 in 2024. He then played in eight games before breaking his foot and finished with 332 yards rushing and four touchdowns.

Chubb, 29, has run for 6,843 yards since the Browns selected him in the second round in the 2018 NFL draft.

WNBA

Caitlin Clark will sit out a fifth consecutive game with a quadriceps strain when Indiana visits Atlanta tonight, shifting the focus to whether the Fever star will return against the WNBA champion New York Liberty on Saturday.

Indiana coach Stephanie White stopped short Monday of saying Clark had been cleared for basketball activities, saying the club was ready for the reigning Rookie of the Year to start “ramping back up.”

The Fever initially said Clark would miss at least two weeks, and it has been 16 days since Clark was injured in a 90-88 loss to the Liberty. She finished the game, saying later adrenaline likely allowed her to play with the strain.

Clark told reporters last week she was targeting a return for tonight, but said she wouldn’t rush it. White reiterated the patience part Monday.

SOCCER

U.S. midfielder Tyler Adams will miss tonight’s friendly against Switzerland because of a foot injury.

“I hope it’s not a big issue,” coach Mauricio Pochettino said Monday. “I think we can manage in a good way and rest him a few days and then see if he can be ready for the Gold Cup.”

Adams played the second half of Saturday’s 2-1 loss to Turkey.

The Americans open the CONCACAF Gold Cup against Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday. They already are missing are Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie, Tim Weah, Antonee Robinson, Sergiño Dest, Yunus Musah, Folarin Balogun and Gio Reyna. Some are hurt, some want time off and some will be at the Club World Cup.

The U.S. will be trying to avoid its first four-game losing streak since dropping five straight in 2007.

JURISPRUDENCE

Florida A&M University athletic director Angela Suggs was arrested Monday on fraud and theft charges for allegedly using a corporate credit card for personal use totaling more than $24,000 at her former job.

Suggs, 55, turned herself in and was booked at the Leon County Jail. She was later released on a $13,500 bond.