Less than 10 days remain before the 2026 NFL Trade Deadline, and the rumor mill is already spinning hard. NFL Insider Jordan Schultz said the league is expected to get “even crazier than anticipated” because of the amount of trade chatter and the quality of players potentially on the move. For the Green Bay Packers, that opens the door to a move that would fit their situation as well as any available option: a trade for Indianapolis Colts running back Jonathan Taylor.
Taylor, 27, has spent his entire NFL career with the Colts, but Indianapolis is in the middle of a restructuring on and off the field. The team has already dealt a pair of fan favorites, DeForest Buckner to the San Francisco 49ers and franchise legend Quenton Nelson to the Seattle Seahawks.
Schultz also reported that “sources do believe a trade is leaning to be more likely than not at this point,” and that Green Bay is among the teams that checked in on Taylor’s availability. If the Packers have already made that call, they know exactly what bringing Taylor back to Wisconsin would mean for the fan base and for the player himself.
Still, the bigger reason this makes sense has less to do with Taylor and more to do with Josh Jacobs.
From a pure football standpoint, Taylor is the better back. That’s not a knock on Jacobs, who is talented in his own right, but Taylor has shown he can thrive in rough circumstances and has never finished a season below 4.2 yards per carry. Jacobs, meanwhile, is down to 2.4 yards per carry for Green Bay since returning to the field.
The off-field picture around Jacobs is even more serious. After he submitted a no-contest plea to two misdemeanors for battery and criminal damage to property in a domestic dispute, newly released court records revealed three more women came forward during the investigation to report alleged past domestic incidents involving Jacobs. In each case, he is accused of both physical and verbal/emotional abuse.
That is not the kind of player the Packers should want to proudly employ. Taylor, by contrast, has a sterling reputation everywhere he’s been. He is active in the communities he joins, has a charitable profile, and is widely regarded as a man of high character with strong morals.
So the Packers would not only be getting a better player at one of football’s most important positions. If those accusations are true, they’d also be moving on from a troubling situation and replacing it with a dynamic playmaker who could change the look of Green Bay’s running game. It would likely take draft capital, but the payoff could be immediate, both on the field and in the public eye.
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