The Green Bay Packers offense has struggled the last two weeks after a strong start by quarterback Jordan Love, and the team has less than a month to fix it.
The offensive line and the running game have both had problems, but the Packers have the most room to maneuver before the trade deadline in the young wide receiver group.
The Arizona Cardinals’ wide receiver Marquise “Hollywood” Brown, according to Alex Ballentine of Bleacher Report, is someone Green Bay “must target” on Wednesday, October 4.
One more deep threat could be enough to really unlock this passing game, which is good because the run game has struggled behind a damaged offensive line.
As the deadline for trades draws near, keep an eye on Marquise Brown.
Kyler Murray still isn’t in the Cardinals’ starting lineup even though he’s in the final year of his contract. He might be obtainable. At 26 years old, he may end up being a part of the Packers’ young core.
Marquise Brown and Christian Watson would make an explosive WR duo for the Packers.
Marquise Brown of the Arizona Cardinals is a possible trade target for the 49ers.
Baltimore Ravens’ 2019 first-round selection, No. Brown’s top talent is his capacity to exploit his explosive verticality to open up defenses (ranked 25 overall).
In 62 career games, including 55 starts, Brown has accumulated 283 catches for 3,309 yards and 26 touchdowns.
Wideout Christian Watson, who made his season debut against the Detroit Lions in Week 4 after missing the first three games with a hamstring injury, is already a big-play threat for the Packers.
The majority of secondaries in the league would have trouble matching up against Watson and Brown, and quarterback Jordan Love would be able to return to the player who threw six touchdown passes in the first two games of the season.
In April of that year, the Ravens dealt Brown and a third-round pick to the Cardinals in exchange for a first-round selection in 2022.
Packers’ acquisition of Marquise Brown must be a long-term strategy.
Only a long-term strategy that includes a multiyear contract extension would make sense if Green Bay decides to pursue a trade for Brown.
The wide receiver is currently in the fifth year of his rookie contract and will be paid $13.4 million in 2023.
Before the Cardinals exercised their team option to keep hold of former first-round picks for an additional year, Brown was paid $11.8 million over the course of his initial four-year contract.
Over the course of a new three-year contract, Spotrac estimates Brown’s market value to be $18 point 1 million ($54 point 3 million overall). The Packers’ projected salary cap space for the upcoming offseason is $18.9 million, though they will have a number of options to free up more money.
David Bakhtiari, a left tackle who is currently on injured reserve with a knee injury and is scheduled to cost the team $40.5 million in 2024, can be cut or traded by Green Bay next summer and save the team more than $21 million in total.