The Packers won’t be cutting Kyle McCord loose before the roster deadline after all. Instead, they’ve found a trade partner, sending the quarterback to the Miami Dolphins in a deal that gives Green Bay a future pick and gives Miami the backup it needed.
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Packers will get a 2028 sixth-round pick in return for McCord. It’s a clean swap on paper and, from both sides, one that fits neatly with where things stood entering cutdown day.
Miami had already moved on from backup quarterback Cam Miller, leaving the Dolphins in the market for a new No. 2.
That opened the door for Jon-Eric Sullivan, the Packers exec turned Dolphins GM, to bring in another player from his former team. McCord now heads to a roster where he’ll have a chance to develop behind Malik Willis.
For Green Bay, the move turns a likely roster cut into draft capital. McCord was almost certainly going to be moved off the roster before Sunday’s deadline, and the Packers clearly believed he wouldn’t make it through waivers if they tried to sneak him through that way. Instead, Brian Gutekunst and Sullivan got a deal done.
The trade also settles the conversation around Tyrod Taylor’s spot. Plenty of Packers fans wanted McCord to leapfrog him for the QB2 job after McCord lit up the preseason finale with four touchdowns, but that was never the direction this was heading.
The biggest clue came before the game even kicked off, when the Packers made Taylor a healthy scratch. That was a pretty clear sign he wasn’t actually battling for the job, even after two rough preseason outings. The backup role belonged to Taylor.
McCord still made the most of his last chance in Green Bay. He went 22 of 35 for 226 yards and four touchdowns in a wild 42-38 preseason win, the kind of performance that put him on the radar for other teams. Now he gets his next shot in Miami - or, as the source put it, “Green Bay South.”
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