Overview
- The player-for-player swap sends 2024 second-team All-Pro and Pro Bowler Zaire Franklin to Green Bay and brings 2025 Packers starter Colby Wooden to Indianapolis, according to multiple reports.
- Indianapolis gains a reported net $4.6 million in salary-cap space after moving Franklin, easing pressure created by the transition tag on Jones before next week’s compliance deadline.
- Green Bay assumes Franklin’s remaining contract, including a $6.24 million base salary in 2026 that rises to $8.24 million in 2027, with no guarantees left beyond vested veteran rules.
- Wooden’s exit leaves a hole at nose tackle for the Packers after he started there in 2025, increasing the team’s need to add interior defensive line help this offseason.
- Wooden enters the final year of his rookie deal (about a $1.145 million cap charge) and is expected to slot into the Colts’ defensive tackle rotation behind Grover Stewart.