Draft Room: Can the Packers Actually Move Up in Round 2 — Or Is That Just Fantasy?
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The draft is closing in, and Pack Nation's questions are getting sharper — so Ryan's bringing the receipts. This episode of Draft Room digs into one of the most pressing questions surrounding Green Bay's draft position: with no first-round pick and only seven total selections, what can the Packers realistically do to maneuver on draft day?
Using the Rich Hill trade value model, Ryan walks through the cold, hard math of what moving up or moving back in the second round actually costs — and the numbers might surprise you. Spoiler: if you're dreaming of Green Bay leaping to the top of Round 2, you better be ready to sacrifice a lot more than you think.
- Caller Garrett from Illinois breaks down the question Pack Nation has been asking: could Green Bay move up to 40-something in Round 2, and what would that compensation actually look like?
- Ryan runs the trade value numbers on multiple scenarios — trading up, trading back, squeezing in extra picks — and explains why almost every path leads to disappointment given the Packers' limited capital
- David Bailey's character concerns get a full airing: the photographer incident, the stomping ejection, the video evidence — and what it might mean for his draft slide
- The top-10 puzzle is starting to take shape: Mendoza at 1, Reese to the Jets at 2, Carnell Tate potentially at 6, and Jeremiah Love surging at Tennessee — so where does Bailey land?
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the draft room. |
| 0:20.2 | This is the NFL draft podcast of the Packernet Podcast Network. I do want to get through some more news and notsy type stuff. However, we do have a call first. So why don't we go ahead and start with that? If you want to call in, you can feel free to do so. |
| 0:38.6 | The phone number is 608-561-3-343. |
| 0:43.5 | Garrett, what do you got going on? |
| 0:46.2 | Ryan, this is Garrett from Seattle, Illinois, |
| 0:49.0 | with the drafts growing closer and closer. |
| 0:52.9 | I wanted to ask you, |
| 0:55.3 | is there any |
| 0:57.4 | rumors or news out there |
| 1:01.7 | of possibilities |
| 1:03.6 | of teams moving up |
| 1:06.1 | or moving back |
| 1:08.5 | and |
| 1:09.7 | could Green Bay possibly with no first round pick still move up in the second round |
| 1:17.5 | to get somebody at the very top of the second round that they want, |
| 1:22.8 | that still is a need, and what would that look like as far as compensation to move up to the top of the second round? |
| 1:31.9 | Because we know Goody likes to do that, so just wondering what the possibilities could hold for draft day. |
| 1:41.3 | I know that we don't have a first round, but hoping that maybe they could move up in the second. |
| 1:48.4 | Or scenarios of why they would move back in the second, because he's done that also. |
| 1:56.3 | Yeah, so first of all, there are a lot of people looking to move back. |
| 1:59.9 | They're supposed to be, as I mentioned, I think yesterday, a very trade-heavy draft this year. |
| 2:05.7 | And I think the general idea is that there's a lot of talent or value maybe. |
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