BREAKING: Packers Trade Colby Wooden to Colts for Linebacker Zaire Franklin
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Ryan wasn't even planning to record today — but the Packers went and did a dozen things while he was away, so here we are. The headliner: Green Bay traded defensive tackle Colby Wooden to Indianapolis for linebacker Zaire Franklin in a straight player-for-player swap. Ryan breaks down exactly why this move makes more sense than the PFF grades suggest.
- The Gannon A-Gap Blueprint: Ryan digs into Jonathan Gannon's history as a defensive coordinator in Philadelphia and Arizona, showing why a 275-pound defensive tackle in the A-gap simply doesn't fit his scheme — and why a 320+ pound anchor is almost certainly coming in this draft class.
- Who Is Zaire Franklin? Ryan unpacks Franklin's connection to Gannon dating back to Indianapolis, draws a compelling comp to TJ Edwards in Philly, and explains why his 2025 collapse was a scheme misfit under Lou Anarumo — not a talent cliff.
- The Cooper-Franklin Partnership: Franklin is the dirty-work green-dot linebacker who frees Edrin Cooper to fly around and make plays — the same dynamic Gannon used with Edwards and Kaiser White in his best defensive years.
- Nick Neiman Re-Signs: A quick look at the one-year deal for Green Bay's special teams ace and what it means for the linebacker depth chart heading into camp.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | I am your host and resident panelist as always Ryan Schlipp. |
| 0:17.7 | Check us out online, packernet.com. |
| 0:20.7 | Find me on Twitter pack underscore datam. |
| 0:24.4 | I wasn't supposed to be here today. |
| 0:28.5 | I, for lack of, you know, long story short, I was at a four-hour class today. |
| 0:43.8 | And it was a very physical class. And I said, |
| 0:47.9 | you know what, I'm taking the day off. And my wife was giving me a ride home because obviously our car is dead again for the 50 billionth time. Anyways, and I told her, I'm like, I'm taking the day off. I'm just, I don't think I'm going to, I don't think I'm going to do anything. And then I thought about it. And I'm like, you know what? I guarantee you the Packers did some stuff. I'm just positive. At the very least, the Breshaun Gary News came through. I go on Twitter and I scroll just a little bit. and I see Ken Ingalls listing off, after they did this and this and this and then traded this and then brought in this and then did this and then did this and then they did this. Now they're no longer cap compliant, which means they're going to have to do a did it. And it's like, oh my lord, it did like 20 things, man. I got, all right. I mean, I'm excited. I feel invigorated right now. I do. Nice long shower, fresh clothes. Got a big old jug of coffee that has a really weird taste that I'm worried is like a freaking coffee cleaner or rat poison. I'm not entirely sure, but it's got a really funky taste to it. |
| 1:47.2 | So that's that, that, we'll see if I'm around tomorrow. But I'm feeling good. Long story short, |
| 1:55.8 | I think this is probably going to be it. I don't know if I'm going to do Packernet after |
| 2:00.0 | dark because I was kind of excited about the |
| 2:02.0 | whole not doing stuff thing. |
| 2:04.7 | So let's go through some of the good stuff here. |
| 2:09.1 | So why don't we start with the big news? |
| 2:11.8 | And I haven't been marinating in this all day. |
| 2:14.0 | This is, again, this is brand new. |
| 2:15.4 | So I see the news. |
| 2:16.7 | I get it. As far as like digesting it and is, again, this is brand new. So I see the news. I get it. As far as like |
| 2:19.8 | digesting it and whatnot, I haven't fully done that. However, the headline here, the big |
| 2:27.6 | news, we'll just start with the meat for once. Packers traded Colby Wooden to the Colts |
| 2:33.9 | for linebacker Zaire Franklin. |
| 2:36.7 | This is a straight player-for-player swap. |
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