GREEN BAY — Jayden Reed has a theory about jersey numbers.

“It’s a number, man,” the Green Bay Packers third-year wide receiver said after practice Monday. “You make the number. You don’t let the number make you.”

So while Reed kept his No. 11 despite a request for it from new teammate Micah Parsons, it wasn’t because Reed was overly sentimental about the number or because Parsons didn't offer him enough cash to buy it from him.

It was a different financial factor.

According to NFL rules, players who change numbers are required to buy up the existing inventory of jersey distribution companies — meaning whatever Parsons might’ve paid Reed for No. 11, Reed would have had to shell out big-time bucks to buy up the in-stock No. 11 jerseys with his name on them at the Packers Pro Shop, Fanat

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