This offseason, the Green Bay Packers still face a very familiar issue. Whether some fans want to admit it or not, this team needs help in the wide receiver room.
The position still doesn't have that true alpha, despite Christian Watson looking excellent in spurts and when healthy. There's a ton of versatility and speed, there, but Green Bay is still lacking the guy who could take over a game.
As is always the case in February, offseason fodder, whispers and rumors are going to start firing off at will. And, on a recent episode of ESPN's "Get Up," NFL insider Jeremy Fowler offered a potential solution for the Packers without directly including Green Bay.
When speaking on the Philadelphia Eagles and wide receiver A.J. Brown, Fowler suggest preliminary trade talks might be coming.
"Some people, I've talked to around the league, some executives of other teams, do expect that the Eagles will at least entertain a trade for A.J. Brown who was unhappy on numerous fronts."
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The reality of this situation is that Green Bay has already given up two first-round picks to acquire Micah Parsons just this last year. So, they don't have a first rounder to offer Philadelphia if it was needed.
"He would create a haul for the Eagles if they do go that route," Fowler explained.
What exactly is a "haul" for Brown? He is going to be 29 years old this summer and was previously traded from the Tennessee Titans for a first and a third-round pick. That was four years ago.
At this stage, Brown might end up going for something along the lines of two second rounders. It's hard to see him going for a first-round pick, which is a positive for Green Bay.
Would the Packers be willing to part with a second-round pick, though? And less than a year after emptying their first-round cabinet to get Parsons?
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What the Packers could do, if they wanted to try and lighten the burden, is to include someone like Matthew Golden or Jayden Reed in that deal. And, for any Packer fans upset at the thought of trading Golden just a year after he was drafted, let me put it nicely: he wasn't worth the first-round capital to begin with.
We will leave it at that.
If the Eagles were good with Golden and a third rounder, for example, that would be the easiest of decisions for Brian Gutekunst. To pair Brown with Watson and Reed gives the Packers offense just what they've needed.
And, we haven't even talked about Romeo Doubs yet, but in this scenario he is likely headed elsewhere via free agency.
Brown to the Packers? it could happen.