It is a matter of when, not if, Donald Driver will return to the Packers for another season. Driver's agent is expected to work out a restructured deal before his client hits the field again. "I'll be in Green Bay. I'm not going anywhere," Driver said recently. "I've always said I want to retire as a Packer, I think the organization knows that, so we're going to come together. We're going to make a decision. One, two more years, and then I'll put my cleats on the shelf and sit back in Dallas and relax. It's family." Driver is set to make $5 million in total pay in 2012. He will have to take a large pay cut, and it appears he's willing to do so.

Donald Driver has added the "Dancing With the Stars" mirrorball trophy to his awards collection. The Packers receiver won the ABC dance show on Tuesday night after wowing audiences and judges with his country-themed freestyle. He and partner Peta Murgatroyd hoisted the glittery prize above their heads after being named the new "Dancing" champs.

The Packers are denying a report suggesting that president Mark Murphy could be a candidate to become the next athletic director at Stanford. "That's simply speculation," a team spokesman said. "There's no basis to it." The Press-Gazette reports that Murphy was a candidate for the same job in 2006 before he was hired as Packers president in 2007.

The breakup between Brett Favre and the Packers wasn't an easy one, but time appears to have healed some of the wounds. Green Bay president Mark Murphy told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Thursday that the team plans to retire Favre's number in a year or two.

After signing an extension with the Packers last summer, Mason Crosby set a new franchise record with 23 consecutive regular-season makes (dating back to the 2010 season). He made a career-high 85.7 percent of his regular-season field goals in 2011. For all the successes, there were a few failures -- missing an extra point and four field-goal tries, including one that hit the right upright against Tampa Bay to end his streak on Nov. 23. "There are always one or two things you can just improve on," Crosby said. "Obviously, I didn't make every kick, so definitely that's a new goal, and now I have a number, a mountain-in-a-row, that I can try to eclipse. There's always things you set and try to get better with."

An email from an imprisoned friend of the Saints staff with a postscript saying, "put me down for $5,000" on Green Bay QB Aaron Rodgers, has become another sore point between players being punished for New Orleans' bounty system and the NFL. The email, obtained by The Associated Press, was written from prison by marketing agent Mike Ornstein shortly before the Saints' 2011 season opener against the Packers.

Former Saints defensive end Anthony Hargrove says he's "disappointed" his declaration regarding the bounty scandal was leaked to the media. In a document obtained Monday by The Associated Press, Hargrove, now a member of the Packers, said he was told by Gregg Williams and Joe Vitt to deny the existence of a bounty program to NFL investigators.

Nick Collins has yet to decide whether he will proceed trying to find employment elsewhere after the Packers cut him loose earlier this offseason. The safety's agent hopes he opts for retirement in order to do more work mentoring young athletes. "And it would keep him out of harm's way. He wouldn't have to tackle anybody," agent Alan Herman said. Green Bay released him because a neck injury that has put his health in jeopardy.

Aaron Rodgers was invited to host Saturday Night Live earlier this year, but he turned down the offer. "I was a given a few dates this offseason, but unlike previous years where most people decide to get married in the summertime, the dates they gave me were the days of marriages that I was either standing up in or really, really wanted to go," Rodgers told Dan Patrick on Wednesday. Rodgers hopes to get another invitation in the future. "I'm hopeful I'll get another invite later on," he said. "It's a great show." Eli Manning will host the show this weekend.