Two NFL teams are dealing with the specter of losing their franchise quarterbacks, and trying to get as much as possible in return when the seemingly inevitable happens.
The Green Bay Packers seem to be just a few crossed “t’s” and dotted “i’s” away from trading Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets. In this scenario, the Jets give up their 13th overall pick this year, and a conditional high pick in 2024, for Rodgers’ services, and the clock officially starts on the Jordan Love era in Titletown.
The Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson seem no closer to a resolution on Lamar Jackson’s situation — they placed the non-exclusive tag on Jackson, which allows him to negotiate with other teams, and if he should get an offer sheet from another team, the Ravens would have five days to match the offer, or get two first-round picks from the team making that deal. In this case, the Indianapolis Colts sign Jackson to a five-year, $250 million deal with $200 million guaranteed in a deal that gives Jackson all he wants up front, and the Colts with some reasonable wiggle room on the back end. Baltimore gets Indianapolis’ fourth overall pick in the 2023 draft, and whatever their first-round pick is in 2024.
How would those two deals affect the 2023 draft as it stands now? Here are our three-round projections for just such a set of scenarios.
(All advanced metrics courtesy of Pro Football Focus, Sports Info Solutions, and Football Outsiders unless otherwise indicated).
