The cost to acquire fourth-year linebacker B.J. Goodson from the New York Giants was minimal for the Green Bay Packers.
According to Jason Wilde of the Wisconsin State Journal, the Packers agreed to swap seventh-round picks with the Giants in exchange for Goodson, who the Giants were planning to release anyway.
By giving up a few spots in the seventh round of next year’s draft, the Packers skipped the waiver claims process and added Goodson without the worry of another team ahead of the Packers in the claim process getting him first.
Goodson, a fourth-round pick out of Clemson in 2016, started 13 games for the Giants in 2018.
Credit GM Brian Gutekunst, who found a cheap way to add a veteran player at a position that desperately needed reinforcement. It could be argued that he needed to act weeks ago, when Oren Burks first went down with a partially torn pectoral muscle, but it’s also hard to argue with acquiring a young player with 20 career starts for next to nothing.
Based on his playstyle and combine testing, Goodson could provide the Packers with a more athletic version of Antonio Morrison,
The team’s corresponding roster move was releasing linebacker James Crawford.
