The Green Bay Packers have been floated as a possible landing spot for Anthony Richardson, and the idea comes from NFL analyst Kristopher Knox of Bleacher Report.
Knox said the Packers should make a move for the Indianapolis Colts quarterback, who asked for a trade in February. Richardson, the No. 4 pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, has not lived up to that billing in Indianapolis. In his NFL career, the Florida product has thrown for 2,400 yards with 11 touchdowns and 13 interceptions.
Green Bay’s quarterback room has already shifted this offseason. After Malik Willis left for the Miami Dolphins in free agency, the Packers brought in Tyrod Taylor, who spent last season with the New York Jets. Taylor is set to back up Jordan Love.
The trade proposal laid out by Fowler would send Richardson to Green Bay. In that scenario, Indianapolis would pick up draft capital and move forward with Riley Leonard as its No. 2 quarterback, while Green Bay would ask the Colts to cover part of Richardson’s $5.4 million in 2026 guarantees.
"Richardson wants to be in a variation of the McVay-Shanahan-LaFleur system and took notice of what Packers coach Matt LaFleur did with Malik Willis," Fowler wrote. "Green Bay signed Tyrod Taylor earlier this month but at a modest $2.5 million.
With this trade, Indianapolis adds much-needed draft capital and moves forward with Riley Leonard as its No. 2 quarterback. And Green Bay asks Indy to cover a portion of Richardson's $5.4 million in 2026 guarantees."
For now, though, Green Bay looks locked in on the Jordan Love era. Love has developed into a steady starter under LaFleur, finishing last season with 3,381 passing yards, 23 passing touchdowns and a 66.3% completion rate.
He now heads into next season with 11,535 passing yards and 83 touchdowns in his career, along with a 27-20-1 record as a starter.
The Packers were knocked out by the Chicago Bears in the wild-card round of the 2026 playoffs, and they still haven’t won a postseason game since 2023. Even so, Love is still viewed around the league as a franchise quarterback.
New Packers linebacker Zaire Franklin, who played with Richardson in Indianapolis, made that case plainly when speaking to NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero.
"It starts with the quarterback," Franklin told NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero. "Jordan Love.
I told him he was the main reason I came to Green Bay. I wasn't coming to Green Bay or going to an organization without a proven franchise QB.
He is that. He's the type of quarterback you want to be around.
Great manner in the locker room, competes his ass off, is constantly working to get better. It's been a long time since I've seen a QB1 just really raising the level of everybody by his work ethic like that.
It's really dope to see."
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