Ted Thompson has clearly left the building. Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst spoke to the media about his trade deadline deals on Wednesday. Gutekunst made it clear getting a fourth-round pick for Ha Ha Clinton-Dix now was about next year.
“We’d like to be active in free agency, and if we’re active in free agency, that affects the compensatory process,” Gutekunst said.
Clinton-Dix was expected to sign elsewhere after the season. In theory, that would have gotten the Packers a compensatory draft pick. However, the compensatory pick formula says you have to lose more players in free agency than you sign.