How the Dontayvion Wicks trade impacts the Green Bay Packers appetite to draft a receiver in 2026

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Green Bay Packers traded Dontayvion Wicks, knowing what it would do to the 2026 team, so how does that affect the way they look at drafting a receiver in this year's class? How do the needs shake out for the team now? Plus a Mock Draft Monday!

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0:00.0	The Dantavian Wicks trade has to impact the way the Packers approach the 2026 NFL draft.
0:13.2	You are Locked-on Packers, your daily Green Bay Packers podcast.
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0:25.9	You are Locked-on Packers, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:30.9	I'm Peter Bukowski and I cover the Packers for The Leap, a newsletter I would love for
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0:35.6	Thanks to everyone who makes Locked-on Packers their first listen every day. We hope you like starting your day with us,
0:40.8	as much as we like starting our day with you here on the Lockdown Podcast Network,
0:44.5	the number one sports podcast network. The Packers traded Don Tavian Wicks.
0:51.6	We talked about this on our Sunday OT, which was actually on Saturday last week, with our
0:56.8	pal Brandon Snide.
0:57.8	And so if you want the breakdown of all the stuff related to the Wix trade, go check out
1:02.3	that episode.
1:03.8	But there is a further trickle down when it comes to what comes next for the Packers.
1:09.7	And that is the way you look at this draft.
1:14.9	And so, okay, Matthew Golden, Savian Williams.
1:18.6	They're under contract in 2027.
1:21.6	The Packers cannot act as if a Christian Watson deal is fait complete until that deal is actually
1:32.4	feta complete until it is pert near done it's not and the odds are it will not be
1:40.8	done by the draft and so you cannot treat it done, even if you would like to get it done.
1:49.4	The Packers wanted to resign Aaron Jones when Aaron Jones became a Minnesota Viking.
1:56.3	These things don't always work out the way that you plan them. And so the Packers cannot assume
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