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Jets Receive: OT David Bakhtiari

Packers Receive: 2025 conditional second-round pick (based on Bakhtiari's health and play)

Green Bay general manager Brian Gutekunst went out of his way to let people know he wasn't going to trade left tackle David Bakhtiari last August. That was then, but this is now.

The financial picture around trading the veteran has changed this offseason. While the Packers would have incurred a massive dead cap charge for dealing him last offseason, they stand to save a whopping $21 million in cap space by trading him this year.

That might not do much for the roster, but it does create a significant amount of cap space that could be used to retain their current crop of free agents or get a little more aggressive in free agency.

The trick with trading Bakhtiari is figuring out just how much he's worth. When he's on the field, he's still shown the ability to play at a high level. But he's 32, coming off a complicated knee injury and only played 55 snaps last season.

It's hard for the Packers to continue forward with the veteran because of his contract. Trading him would allow the team taking him on to inherit his $10.7 million base salary, which isn't all that hard to manage.

The best path toward a trade might be with a conditional draft pick. A modified formula that the Jaguars and Falcons used to trade Calvin Ridley last offseason would make sense.

In that case, the Falcons traded the receiver to the Jags for a 2023 fifth-round pick and a conditional pick in 2024. If Ridley reached certain playing milestones, it became a third-round pick; and if the Jaguars re-sign him this offseason, it would become a second-rounder.

A Bakhtiari conditional pick could start as a fourth-rounder but elevate to a third if he plays in more than 50 percent of the offensive snaps and becomes a second-rounder if the Jets extend him beyond the final year of his contract.