The Packers have agreed to a six-year deal with first-round draft pick A.J. Hawk. The linebacker's agent, Mike McCartney, said the sides were still working out details, meaning the Ohio State star and fifth overall draft pick was expected to miss Friday night's first training camp practice. He could be ready to go by Saturday. "A.J.'s ecstatic, and it's going to be great to see his impact as a Packer," McCartney said.

Negotiations with first-round draft pick A.J. Hawk may have reached their final stage on Thursday, a day before the Green Bay Packers are scheduled to open training camp. The talks were aided when the two players selected immediately before Hawk, third overall pick Vince Young and No. 4 pick D'Brickashaw Ferguson, agreed to contracts.

The Packers signed safety Tyrone Culver, a sixth-round draft pick, on Tuesday. He is the third Packers draft pick to sign a contract, following defensive end Dave Tollefson and defensive tackle Johnny Jolly. Culver was a first-team All-WAC selection as a senior at Fresno State and a four-time academic all-conference selection. The Packers chose the 6-foot-1, 200-pound Culver with the 185th overall pick.

Green Bay Packers fourth-round draft pick Cory Rodgers, a wide receiver/kick returner, has been placed on 15 months probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge. Rodgers pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of unlawfully carrying a firearm.

Green Bay rookie Cory Rodgers, whose potential impressed the Packers in spring practices, has reached a plea agreement with Tarrant County (Texas) prosecutors on gun-related charges spawned by a May incident outside a Forth Worth nightclub. Under the deferred adjudication agreement, Rodgers was sentenced to 15 months of probation for unlawfully carrying a firearm. He also received a $500 fine and must perform 80 hours of community service. Provided that Rodgers completes the terms of his probation without further incident, the case will be dismissed and the conviction expunged from his record. But by pleading guilty to lesser charges, prosecutors agreed not to pursue a more serious charge of firing a weapon when Rodgers pleaded to the misdemeanor charge of carrying a firearm, the WR could still be subject to NFL discipline. The league's personal conduct policy stipulates that, even when a player pleads to a lesser charge, he can be sanctioned.