Latest CBS mock draft: Raiders acquire Aaron Rodgers for massive haul

The Proposed Aaron Rodgers Trade to the Las Vegas Raiders

Raiders Receive

• Aaron Rodgers

Packers Receive

• 2023 first-round pick (seventh overall)
• 2023 third-round pick
• 2024 first-, second- and fourth-round picks (if Rodgers commits to playing that season)

The Packers Use Two First Round Picks to Fill Immediate Needs

If this trade scenario were to come to fruition, the Packers would have the No. 7 and No. 15 picks in the 2023 NFL Draft. In this mock draft, the Packers would use the No. 7 overall pick to draft safety Brian Branch from Alabama. They would then use the No. 15 selection to draft tight end Luke Musgrove from Oregon State.

Branch is considered to be the best safety in the 2023 NFL Draft. The Packers have a serious lack of depth of safety as Adrian Amos and Rudy Ford are free agents. Darnell Savage was benched as a safety last season, but played better as a slot corner when he was inserted back into the lineup. Savage, of course, was the last safety that the Packers drafted in the first round of any draft.

Musgrove is considered to be the fourth-best tight end in the 2023 NFL Draft. As with safety, this is a position in which the Packers have a serious lack of depth. Josiah Deguara is the only tight end under contract with Green Bay that has any NFL game experience. Robert Tonyan, Marcedes Lewis, and Tyler Davis are all free agents. It seems to be a popular trend to mock a tight end to the Packers in the first round. However, that has not happened in reality in a long time. Bubba Franks, drafted in 2000, was the last tight end drafted by the Packers in the first round. For reference, Green Bay last took a wide receiver in round one in 2002.

In other words, the Branch pick makes sense given the Packers’ drafting history. The Musgrove pick does not.