GREEN BAY -- Coach Mike McCarthy turned the Green Bay Packers' final practice of the mandatory minicamp into a lengthy jog-through, but Wednesday was a heavy news day nevertheless.

The team officially announced that wide receiver Greg Jennings, whose new contract was on the verge of completion Tuesday night, had indeed signed his new deal. A source familiar with the deal confirmed it is a three-year extension worth roughly $27 million in new money. And Jennings, 25, will be a free agent again after the 2012 season, when he's just 29.

We'll have more on the deal, and what it means for the host of other prospective free agents, later today.

Meanwhile, there was tragic news out of Iowa, where defensive end Aaron Kampman's legendary high-school coach, Aplington-Parkersburg's Ed Thomas, was shot and killed in the school's weight room Wednesday morning. McCarthy broke the news to Kampman after team meetings and before practice.

Kampman took part in practice and received condolences from a number of his teammates during it. He did not speak to reporters afterwards.

We'll have more on that story later as well.