Nothing was given to me. Everything was taken. I say there are two ways to get respect. You can earn it, or you take it. I like taking it.”

Hobbs can play nickel or outside cornerback and figures to start for the Packers after agreeing to terms with them earlier this week.

The free-agency period entails a storm of reports regarding new contracts, with all of them painted in the light most favorable to the sources for those reports — the players' agents.