Packers Players Who Should be on the Trade Block After Week 3
After a disappointing Week 1 result, the Green Bay Packers have looked like the team they were expected to be in 2022.
The defense has been vicious over the last two weeks, giving up a total of 22 points between the Chicago Bears and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. While there's a lot of parity this early in the league's schedule, the Packers are certainly looking the part of Super Bowl contenders.
While that makes them more likely to be buyers when the in-season trading starts, there's still a chance they decide to part ways with someone in order to trade for a player or pick.
Based on usage, performance or the depth the Packers have, these players should be on the trade block as we approach Week 4.
QB Jordan Love
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If the Green Bay Packers ultimately decide to hang on to Jordan Love as they brace for the eventual end of Aaron Rodgers' time as a quarterback, it will be understandable.
But if they don't at least field calls for the passer as the trade deadline approaches, that doesn't make sense.
Rodgers is not looking like an All-Pro through three games, but he is breaking in a new-look group of receivers, with fourth-round pick Romeo Doubs looking the most impressive thus far.
That's not an ideal situation for Love if he takes over next season.
Should Rodgers decide to hang up his cleats after this season, Green Bay will still be a tempting landing spot for veteran quarterbacks looking to change teams in 2023. With their elite defense and a strong offensive play-caller in LaFleur, they should have options.
Through three seasons, we still don't know what Love is. If there's a team willing to pay up to find out, the Packers should be willing to listen.
Edge Tipa Galeai
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The Packers have an excellent duo of edge rushers in Rashan Gary and Preston Smith. Defensive coordinator Joe Barry obviously loves what they bring to the table as they rarely come off the field for pass-rushers.
Gary plays 76.1 percent of the snaps, per Pro Football Reference, while Preston Smith has logged 83.9 percent. It doesn't leave much room for a rotation on the perimeter. When either of them does get a breather, it's been either Kingsley Enagbare or Johnathan Garvin who have come on in relief.
That has left Tipa Galeai to be exclusively a special-teamer on the roster.
Galeai brings value in that role, but he flashed some serious pass-rushing skills in the preseason and would be an intriguing rotational pass-rusher.
Pass-rushing is always valued at a premium, and there are plenty of teams in the league that are starting to see they don't have disruptors coming off the edge.
If there's a team that believes the athletic Galeai can fill that role, the Packers would be wise to find someone else to play special teams and get what they can from trading the outside linebacker.
WR Amari Rodgers
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If Amari Rodgers can't break this team's wide receiver rotation now, he's never going to.
The Packers have had about as much upheaval in the receiver room as possible this offseason, and the former second-round pick out of Clemson has still been relegated to return duties on special teams.
Now, the Packers have signed cornerback Corey Ballentine, a speedy defensive back who has averaged 24.4 yards per kickoff return in his career, to the practice squad.
The move may have been in response to Jaire Alexander's groin injury, but it also calls into question Amari Rodgers' role on the team.
Again, draft pedigree means a lot in NFL circles. Even if a player hasn't panned out as expected, there are generally front offices who liked a player during the draft process that will try to bring them in.
If anyone is interested in an Amari Rodgers reclamation project, the Packers should be willing to acquiesce and simply call up Ballentine.
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