Maybe the Green Bay Packers aren't drawing free agents due to income tax concerns after all.

Back in April, former Green Bay Packers contract negotiator Andrew Brandt wrote an article for the National Football Post about how players could make more money playing for teams in a state without income taxes.

"The states without income tax, I felt, always had an advantage in recruiting free agent players," wrote Brandt. "Teams in Florida, Tennessee and Texas used the fact that their states had no income tax to show players how much more they would take home than teams in high income tax states (like Wisconsin). In some cases, agents actually showed me data from other teams showing how much more the player would make over the life of the same contract in one of those states. In recruiting players for Green Bay, I would always hear from agents how much more a player would make from, say, the Buccaneers or Texans compared to the 6.6-percent state income tax that Wisconsin would take from Packer players."

Just this week during Organized Team Activities (OTAs), Packers defensive back Jarrett Bush spoke to the Green Bay Press-Gazette about the contract he was offered from the Tennessee Titans, which the Packers chose to match.

"It was a win-win situation for me, really," Bush told the Press-Gazette. "Either I went to Tennessee, or I could stay here. Tennessee had no state taxes."

Bush was a highly sought after restricted free agent. In addition to the Titans, he also visited the Baltimore Ravens and reportedly had interest from four other teams.

The fact that Bush chose the Titans over five other teams shows the pull an extra six percent of your paycheck can mean to a player of Bush's caliber. While he's making millions of dollars, he's not making the money top tier free agents make. He only has a few short years to make himself financially set for the rest of his life, and hopefully his family as well.

Packers general manager Ted Thompson has been known as a general manager who hasn't dipped his toe into the free agent pool very often. But is it entirely possible that he's not able to attract free agents to come to a place like Green Bay where it's small, rural and cold in addition to having a state income tax?

For his part, Bush said he was happy to come back to the Packers.

"I know the (Packers) coaching staff, I know the organization, I know where we have training camp, I know the head coach, I know what’s going on here and how things operate," said Bush. "So, I was like, it don’t matter where I go. If I stay, great. If I don’t, great anyway."

But as long as he mentioned the income tax situation, it leaves at least a seed of doubt about whether the Packers can attract free agents compared to the rest of the NFL.