GREEN BAY -- The Green Bay Packers released wide receiver Koren Robinson Friday, but both general manager Ted Thompson and Robinson's agent said the move was made solely for football reasons, not because Robinson had encountered any off-the-field problems in his continuing recovery from alcoholism.

 Instead, after the Packers drafted Kansas State wide receiver Jordy Nelson with the first of their three second-round picks during the April 26 NFL draft, then added San Diego State wide receiver Brett Swain in the seventh round, it was clear the team had decided to go younger at the position.

 ``When the Packers took (Nelson) in the second round, they told us then that they were looking to go young at the position,'' Robinson's agent, Alvin Keels, said. ``The decision was, they're looking to build a receiving corps that's going to be strong for the future.

 They're for their No. 3 and No. 4 guy this year to be someone that can develop into a primary target for the team in a couple of years, and that put Koren between a rock and a hard place. They had to cut somebody.''

 Thompson, reached Friday evening, said it was a football-only decision.

 ``We looked at this pretty hard, and just with the general makeup of our roster at that position, we felt like it would be better for the Packers -- and probably better for Koren, quite frankly -- to let him go,'' said Thompson, who drafted Robinson in the first round of the 2001 draft while in Seattle. ``Obviously I think the world of him, as you know.''