GREEN BAY, Wis. – With the Green Bay Packers “open” to trading cornerback Jaire Alexander, a couple months of speculation has become more real.
Getting rid of a player is easy. Replacing him is more difficult.
The Packers got to the playoffs with Keisean Nixon and Carrington Valentine as their perimeter cornerbacks. They weren’t great but the Packers weren’t eliminated by the Eagles in the wild-card playoffs because they couldn’t guard A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith.
Nonetheless, the Packers had no answers to the Lions’ Jared Goff and the Vikings’ Sam Darnold in getting swept by both teams.