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Green Bay - The Green Bay Packers have signed cornerback Tramon Williams to a four-year contract extension averaging $8.25 million, the Journal Sentinel has learned.



The deal is worth $33.074 million and extends through 2014. The Packers and agent Rodney Williams completed the deal late last week but the club didn’t announce it.



Williams received a $6 million signing bonus and roster bonuses of $2.5 million in 2011, $2.8 million in 2012 and $300,000 in both 2013 and 2014.



The deal guarantees Williams $11.074 million. He had been playing under a one-year tender worth $3.043 million.



Williams’s base salary increased this year to $14,376,333, but with six weeks remaining in the regular season he will make just $5.074 million of it, which was guaranteed against skill and injury.



The official average of the deal is $8.2685 million. He can realize another $1 million from 2011-’14 in the form of workout bonuses.



At $8.25 million, Williams trails just three players in Green Bay in average salary per year: quarterback Aaron Rodgers ($12.7 million), cornerback Charles Woodson ($9.73 million) and wide receiver Greg Jennings ($8.75 million).



Williams, 27, entered the league as a free agent with Houston in 2006. Cut by the Texans, he joined the Packers’ practice squad in November 2006.

In another series of moves, the Packers announced they put linebackers Brandon Chillar (shoulder) and Spencer Havner (hamstring) on injured reserve. Both aggravated injuries they had suffered earlier in the year.

Havner will not need surgery to repair the hamstring, according to a source. However, he pulled the muscle bad enough that he would not be able to return this season. Chillar had been putting off surgery on his shoulder all season, but will presumably have it in the near future.

The Packers have not replaced them on the 53-man roster yet. They did not work out anybody Tuesday.

They now have 13 players on injured reserve.