No matter who you want at the NFL trade deadline, which is on Tuesday, getting that player — be it a running back, offensive lineman or defensive lineman — likely involves trading a draft pick in the 2027 class. Which of the Green Bay Packers’ draft picks are tradable? Let’s break it down for you.
Packers’ tradable 2027 picks
- 2nd-round pick
- 3rd-round pick
- 4th-round pick (Dallas Cowboys)
- 4th-round pick
- 5th-round pick
- 6th-round pick
- 7th-round pick
The Packers’ original draft choices are available to trade, which include their second- through seventh-round picks for 2027. Their first-round pick is gone, part of the Micah Parsons trade. Either the Dallas
Cowboys or New York Jets will own it, depending on whichever pick is higher (the highest goes to the Jets).
Packers expected comp picks
- 3rd-round (Malik Willis)
- 5th-round (Quay Walker)
- 5th-round (Romeo Doubs)
- 6th-round (Kingsley Enagbare)
These are the Packers’ expected compensatory draft picks, based on Over the Cap’s current projections. You can toss out the idea of Romeo Doubs’ comp pick rising to the level of a fourth-round pick, as he’s been placed on the injured reserve with a shoulder injury. Playing time does have a factor in these picks graduating, depending on whether a player is on the bubble of two rounds. Please stay healthy, Malik Willis!
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So in total, the Packers are expected to have 11 draft picks in 2027, but they’re only able to trade 7 of them currently, as 4 of them are comp picks — which won’t be awarded until the start of the new league year.
How many picks do the Packers use?
- 2018: 11
- 2019: 8
- 2020: 9
- 2021: 9
- 2022: 11
- 2023: 13
- 2024: 11
- 2025: 8
- 2026: 6
The counts above are the number of picks that general manager Brian Gutekunst has turned in while he’s sat in the big chair. On average, he’s using 9.6 picks per draft — which holds even when you exclude the highest and lowest pick-count drafts on his resume.
On paper, you could think of Green Bay holding an extra pick and a half right now than a “normal” Gutekunst season. One thing that could influence decisions, though, is both the Packers’ future cap situation (it’s not looking good, folks — they need cheap deals) and the fact that the team already is down to six draft picks for the 2028 class, because the team traded away two late-round selections for running back Kaleb Johnson and tight end Mark Redman while also adding a late-round pick for quarterback Kyle McCord.
The 2027 draft vs. the 2028 draft
An interesting X factor for the upcoming draft class is going to be “early” declarations. In the past, Gutekunst has stated that players receiving an extra year of eligibility for the 2020 COVID year have made for deeper draft classes than in the past. That is not in play for this year’s crop of players, as a 2021 high school recruit is now a redshirt senior at the college level, if he’s still even playing.
So, no more sixth-year players, right? That should help the strength of this class. Wrong!
The end of the COVID year also came with the NCAA instituting five-for-five, allowing all players to benefit from what would have been a “redshirt” year, even if they played all five of their seasons of college eligibility. Because of that (and NIL), 39 of the top 40 players in the 2027 class (and 83 of the top 100) would have to declare early for the NFL to be eligible for selection.
In the past, a true senior would have exhausted his eligibility. Now, that player has another year of college football, if he wants it. Based on my discussions with NFL scouts, more players are expected to return than in the past. (Side note: We really need to figure out what to call these fifth-year players, because you can’t assume a senior is going to be out of college eligibility as it stands right now — only redshirt seniors.)
Last season alone, 29 underclassmen (juniors or redshirt sophomores) who were projected to be top-150 selections returned to school, and now we have a class of true seniors with remaining eligibility who can go back to school on top of the underclassmen.
With colleges spending double on high-end rosters over the last two years, it’s going to be harder to get players to declare if they’re not projected to be first- or second-round picks. 2027 will be a buffer class, where the pool of fifth-year seniors will begin to fill at the college level before the draft talent starts to normalize in 2028.
