{"id":801037,"date":"2026-03-08T20:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/801037\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:43:23","slug":"espn-dontayvion-wicks-jayden-reed-involved-in-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/801037\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN: Dontayvion Wicks, Jayden Reed involved in trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAlso, [A.J.] Brown isn\u2019t the only receiver potentially available. Baltimore\u2019s Rashod Bateman, Los Angeles\u2019 Quentin Johnston and Green Bay\u2019s Dontayvion Wicks have come up in my talks. Teams have interest in Green Bay\u2019s Jayden Reed, but I don\u2019t sense the Packers would trade him at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team has a bunch of cap space to play with in 2027. They will almost certainly use it (and then borrow from future cap space to keep the core of the team together down the stretch). That\u2019s great, but that also means that the team won\u2019t be getting anything if Luke Musgrave, Jayden Reed, Dontayvion Wicks, Isaiah McDuffie or Keisean Nixon leave in 2027 free agency, either, when they might be able to get a pick for them if they get a trade done in 2026. The trades of players (not wanted on multi-year extensions) entering contract years on top of the comp picks for the 2026 free agents is how\u2019d they could really supercharge the 2027-2028 window.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s certainly a strategy that would make sense on paper, with the caveat being the fans\u2019 reaction to a soft rebuild coming off the heels of a 9-3-1 start in 2025 that ended in a five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Clearing Wicks for a pick would push 2025 first-rounder Matthew Golden into a full-time starting role in 2026 (they were basically equals last year), which I can understand making him the more likely trade candidate here. I do have a couple of questions about how Golden and Reed get on the field together, though. Head coach Matt LaFleur has always played smaller receivers as slot-only guys<\/a>, with his average outside receiver being in the ballpark of 207 pounds (because run blocking is a premium trait for the position in Green Bay).<\/p>\n

While Reed has been slot-only with the Packers (for three years), Golden was a bit more of a hybrid slot-outside guy. He gets looks outside, particularly on third downs, but is frequently used as a motion man (starting outside but then motioning into the backfield or slot areas of the field) on standard downs. Some services count a receiver lining up outside and then motioning into the slot or backfield as an outside receiver snap, while others don\u2019t, which is why you\u2019ll see vastly different numbers for Golden\u2019s outside receiver snaps in 2025.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not a lot of 2025 film of Reed playing in the slot and Golden being a stationary outside receiver on standard downs. So the fact that Green Bay isn\u2019t willing to part ways with Reed hopefully means that the team has a better plan for using them on the field together in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAlso, [A.J.] Brown isn\u2019t the only receiver potentially available. Baltimore\u2019s Rashod Bateman, Los Angeles\u2019 Quentin Johnston and Green…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,15507,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-801037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-rumors","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116195505411628851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}