Ranking Packers’ Needs at NFL Trade Deadline

Milwaukee native Shelby Harris could help, too. The 34-year-old is stuck in the purgatory that is the Cleveland Browns. He’s played off the bench in eight games this season but is a sturdy run defender and, as the Packers learned earlier this season, has a knack for blocking kicks.

Both are playing under low-priced, one-year deals.

Second: Interior Offensive Line

The Packers opened the vault for left guard Aaron Banks, who can’t stay healthy and has played only about 51 percent of the snaps. At right guard, the Packers can’t decide between last year’s first-round pick, Jordan Morgan, and the returning starter, Sean Rhyan. Perhaps as a result, neither have been good enough. And Elgton Jenkins has taken to life at center like a fish to a beach.

Green Bay’s gameday depth has consisted of Morgan/Rhyan and tackles Anthony Belton and Darian Kinnard. If nothing else, a trade could bolster the depth.

Our Jacob Westendorf pointed to Jackson Powers-Johnson, a second-round pick by the Raiders last year, as an interesting option. He was a top center prospect coming out of Oregon but played mostly left guard as a rookie and mostly right guard this season.

Powers-Johnson would provide immediate depth on the interior and could be a long-term replacement for Jenkins.

The problem here is most teams would love more line depth – that’s why the Packers sent a sixth-round pick to the Eagles for Kinnard, who had played in three games in three seasons.

First: Cornerback

This offseason, the Packers parted ways with Jaire Alexander, Eric Stokes, Corey Ballentine and Robert Rochell and added only Nate Hobbs in free agency and Micah Robinson with a seventh-round draft pick. Robinson is on the Titans’ roster and Hobbs is injured again and has been demoted.

Without Hobbs for the next couple games, this is Green Bay’s cornerback depth chart:

Starters: Keisean Nixon and Carrington Valentine. They have zero interceptions this season.

Backups: Bo Melton and Kamal Hadden. They have zero snaps of defensive experience.

As is the case on the offensive line, the number of teams who want cornerback help is greater than the number of teams willing to deal competent cornerbacks.

Two potential trade candidates mentioned by ESPN and would be schematic fits are the Saints’ Alontae Taylor and the Bengals’ Cam Taylor-Britt. They were 2022 draft picks and, therefore, would be half-year rentals. They’ve played some high-level football, though not necessarily this year.

Taylor, a second-round pick, had 11 passes defensed as a rookie, 14 in 2023 and 16 in 2024. In nine games (eight starts) this season, he has four passes defensed. His only two interceptions came in 2023. Over the last two seasons, PFF charged him with a 71.6 percent catch rate.

Taylor-Britt, also a second-round pick, has zero interceptions and five passes defensed in seven games (two starts). He was a healthy scratch last week. According to Pro Football Focus, he has allowed a 66.7 percent catch rate with three touchdowns. In 2023, when he had three interceptions and 16 passes defensed, he allowed 65.1 percent with 10 touchdowns.

Former Packers corner Rasul Douglas, who is stuck in Miami, is a playmaker with a zone background, as well.

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