Green Bay Packers: Get to Know the Draft Pick Trade Value Chart

If the Green Bay Packers plan to make any moves during the draft, this trade value chart will help illustrate what they may get in return or what they’ll have to give up.

This is only the third offseason of Brian Gutekunst’s tenure as general manager of the Green Bay Packers, but in his short time at the helm, we have already seen that he is not afraid to make trades on draft day.

During his first draft in 2018, he would trade back in Round 1 with the New Orleans Saints only to then trade back up with the Seattle Seahawks and grabbed Jaire Alexander. That same year in Round 3, he would also move up to select Oren Burks.

Then just this past offseason, Gutey would move up once again in the first round, this time to select safety Darnell Savage out of Maryland.

Now with the 2020 draft just a few weeks away, there is once again the possibility that Gutey and the Green Bay Packers will be looking to make a move. Given the overall depth of this class at key positions of need for the Packers, at this point, I would say that it is more likely that they trade back and accumulate an extra draft pick or two.

However, as we’ve seen in the past with Gutey, never rule out that he will make a move up the draft board either.

So when it comes to making trades on draft day, what constitutes a fair trade and what does not? Well, thanks to former Dallas Cowboys head coach, Jimmy Johnson, we have the draft pick trade value chart that he developed in the early 1990s.

Through the years this chart – or some variation of it – has been a tool used by NFL teams to assess whether or not a trade makes sense.

For those who are unfamiliar, what the chart does is it places a value on each draft pick and when making a trade, if as a GM you can get in return the same value or more than you are giving away, then in terms of draft pick value, it is a trade worth doing.

An example would be if the Green Bay Packers decided to trade their 30th overall pick, which is worth 620 points according to the chart, to the New York Giants. That means in return the Packers might ask for pick 36 in Round 2, pick 110 in Round 4, pick 218 in Round 7, and pick 247 also in Round 7. The value of those four picks according to the chart are 540, 74, 3, and 1 which totals 618. Not quite equal, but close.

And of course, there are countless combinations that would result in a fair trade for both teams.

For easier reading, below you can find each Packers’ draft pick with the corresponding value:

Round 1, Pick 30: 620

Round 2, Pick 64: 284

Round 3, Pick 94: 124

Round 4, Pick 136: 38

Round 5, Pick 175: 20.2

Round 6, Pick 192: 13.4

Round 6, Pick 208: 7

Round 6, Pick 209: 6.6

Round 7, Pick 236: 1

Round 7, Pick 242: 1

With this being a fairly deep draft class and the Green Bay Packers having needs at multiple positions, trading out of round one to net an additional top-100 pick should certainly be on the table. Additionally, with five draft picks in the final two rounds, moving up on Days 2 and 3 to land a more impactful player should be in play as well.

So as draft night gets closer, be sure to keep this handy chart available.