as good as Dontayvion was for us<\/a>,\u201d Gutekunst said. \u201cI think he\u2019s got a really bright career ahead of him. The situation we were kind of in with the amount of players we had in that room, what we\u2019re probably going to do in the future, him being in the last year of his contract, it just made a little bit of sense. This year, coming out of the \u201922 draft class, I think we were lucky enough to have retained a bunch of those guys. But a bunch of those guys signed elsewhere this year, too \u2014 we\u2019re probably going to get compensatory picks for those players. I don\u2019t know for sure if we\u2019re going to be able to do that moving forward next year and the year after.<\/p>\n\u201cSo, the ability to get two picks for a player that we weren\u2019t sure exactly how he was going to fit into our future plans, it just made a lot of sense. And I think it was good for us, and I think it\u2019s going to be good for Dontayvion, too, I think he\u2019ll see his opportunities increase there as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Without Wicks, the Packers currently have Christian Watson, Jayden Reed, Matthew Golden, Savion Williams, Skyy Moore, Jakobie Keeney-James, Isaiah Neyor, and Will Sheppard on their roster at wideout.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Gutekunst noted that the picks the team received for Wicks should help with flexibility for this week\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery G.M. wants as many as you can [have], not only because of the players you can select, but the ability to move,\u201d Gutekunst said. \u201cYou never like giving them up, but if there\u2019s a player in front of you that you know you\u2019re going to acquire, it makes it a little bit easier. So, yeah, I think we sit with eight right now. We\u2019re looking at 11-plus for next year. So, whether it\u2019s in this year\u2019s draft, next year\u2019s, the ability to move around to acquire the types of players we want to acquire, you have to have those picks to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wicks caught 30 passes for 332 yards with two touchdowns for the Packers in 2025. In his 46 career games since being selected in the fifth- round of the 2023 draft, Wicks has caught 108 passes for 1,328 yards with 11 TDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Packers traded receiver Dontayvion Wicks to the Eagles earlier this month, receiving a 2026 fifth-round pick and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-598239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}