Report: Packers not among teams interested in trading for star cornerback

The Miami Dolphins are considering trading cornerback Jalen Ramsey, a seven-time Pro Bowler, before the start of the 2025 season. With June 1st around the corner, a key date in the NFL schedule is nearing. Any transactions made after June 1st push future seasons’ dead cap into next year, rather than having it all accelerate to 2025. This allows teams to create more short-term cap space with trades, such as one that would involve Ramsey.

For perspective, a Ramsey trade before June 1st would lead to a $25 million cap charge on the Dolphins’ books in 2025, but trading him after June 1st would only cost them $6.7 million in cap space — with the remainder falling onto the 2026 salary cap. That’s one reason why June 1st is a key date for trades involving veteran players.

Earlier this month, ESPN’s Adam Schefter claimed that there was “more interest in Jalen Ramsey than people realize.” On Friday, Jeremy Fowler, of the same network, stated the Dolphins are actively engaged in trade talks for Ramsey and named the Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys and Washington Commanders as potential suitors.

There are two reasons why this is interesting from a Green Bay Packers perspective. First of all, it doesn’t appear that the Packers are interested in trading for Ramsey, a topic we’ll dive into in a second. Secondly, all of the teams interested in the star cornerback are in the NFC, which will only make Green Bay’s path to a Super Bowl even tougher.

The fact that the Packers aren’t interested in Ramsey tells us they’re all-or-nothing with cornerback Jaire Alexander, who has been reportedly on the trade block since the start of the offseason. Green Bay, based on reports, doesn’t want to pay Alexander the $17.5 million in cash that he’s due in 2025 after missing 20 combined games with injury over the last two years. With how dry the cornerback market will be, at least following the Ramsey trade, though, Alexander may be willing to talk restructure as we get closer to the season.

If the Packers weren’t confident that they would be able to ink Alexander to a restructured deal, you’d think that they would be at least entertaining the idea of replacing Alexander with Ramsey. As of now, at least according to Fowler, that doesn’t seem to be the case. So if the front office fails to sell Alexander on a restructured contract and has to end up trading or releasing the former All-Pro, the team will most likely have to ride with the cornerback trio of Keisean Nixon, Carrington Valentine and Nate Hobbs, with little to no depth behind them, in 2025.