{"id":863515,"date":"2026-04-10T23:57:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863515\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T23:57:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:57:56","slug":"it-sure-sounds-like-zaire-franklin-wants-the-packers-to-make-another-big-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863515\/","title":{"rendered":"It sure sounds like Zaire Franklin wants the Packers to make another big trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Green Bay Packers have already made one big trade with the Indianapolis Colts to acquire linebacker Zaire Franklin<\/a>. Now, Franklin might be using his platform to ask the team to fire up the trade engines with his old team one more time.<\/p>\n

Multiple reports emerged<\/a> that the Colts and slot cornerback Kenny Moore II could soon be parting ways, and Franklin wasted no time responding.<\/p>\n

Franklin posted a picture<\/a> on social media of himself and Moore shaking hands during their time together in Indianapolis. His post was a reply to Adam Schefter’s report that Moore and the Colts had mutually agreed to seek a trade.<\/p>\n

Zaire Franklin seemingly sends a message to Packers with Kenny Moore II on the trade block<\/p>\n

The Packers do have extra draft capital available after trading Dontayvion Wicks<\/a> to the Philadelphia Eagles for a 2026 fifth-rounder and a 2027 sixth-rounder.<\/p>\n

The question is not about whether Franklin would like the Packers to trade for his old Colts teammate now that he’s available, but whether it actually makes sense given the circumstances. And as much as Franklin might love it or even campaign for it, there is a lot to consider.<\/p>\n

In response to Franklin’s post on X, someone made an edit of him and Moore in Packers uniforms, and he actually responded to it<\/a> with a handful of fire emojis.<\/p>\n

And frankly, the idea of trading for Moore has some merit…if the price is right.<\/p>\n

Moore has a base salary this coming season of just $9.49 million and is a free agent after 2026. He’s 31 years old, but there are worse short-term investments the Packers could make. He doesn’t play the outside cornerback position, however, which is the primary reason why he really doesn’t make any sense in Green Bay’s current context.<\/p>\n

Paying the price of a draft pick plus $9.49 million in base salary is a hefty price to pay when it comes to a potential backup, because the Packers already have Javon Bullard to play the slot for new defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon.<\/p>\n

We should see this team adding at the outside cornerback position in the NFL Draft, maybe even via trade, but at 5-foot-9, Moore is not going to be making the switch to play outside cornerback. If the Packers had a need in the slot, this would be a perfect match, but they don’t need to replace Bullard.<\/p>\n

On top of that, the experiment last year with Nate Hobbs definitely won’t inspire<\/a> the Packers to experiment with a slot player moving to the outside again.<\/p>\n

As good a player as Moore is and has been for the Colts, the timing just isn’t right for him to get traded to the Packers, even if it would make the team’s newest linebacker extremely happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers have already made one big trade with the Indianapolis Colts to acquire linebacker Zaire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-863515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapoliscolts","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116383127089077684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863515","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=863515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}