Jones was an unproven, yet disgruntled player possible, they often go unclaimed though waivers unless some teams sees them as a great fit, or someone (coach or scout) knew them from the old team.

Yes Daniels is a surprise they couldn't get anything for him, especially since he essentially got a raise for signing with his new team. But maybe that was the only team willing to pay that old contract, or teams betted the Packers were going to release him anyways and guessed they could win the bidding war for less than his current contract. Or maybe the Packers got a low ball offer and just didn't like the optics of trading him for a 7th or something?

But I'm guessing teams thought Daniels was gonna be released anyways and might be injured and get him for cheaper and Lions were the highest bidder offerings him more than his old contract.



Usually conditional picks are reported as such, and sometimes they just say conditional and never mention the possible rounds or conditions (which drives me nuts), so I'm assuming it's a locked in 7th (though I never did read for which year, so I'm assuming this coming year).

So we got two extra 7ths this coming year (which I consider to be priority UDFA players at that point), one for each Gilbert and Ty Monty.


Speaking of which, I still think Monty would have been perfect in this offense, and I'm disappointed he's not here and it sounds like he could be a big asset for the Jets in Adam Gase offense. MM and Rodgers never quite used the receiver out of the backfield quite right.

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I forgot he was injured.

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The Daniels thing makes some sense to me. An injured, past his prime DL. You may be willing to sign him to a contract, but would you be willing to trade a pick and take on the contract? It's been mentioned that he got a similar contract in Detroit, but that doesn't mean there were any teams who were willing to give up a pick plus pay that contract.

Maybe Detroit would have been willing to cough up a pick, but teams rarely trade with division rivals.

As for Gilbert. He's a young and cheap rotational player. If you're hurting for depth, a 7th round pick isn't much to give up as you head into the season.

Jones was a malcontent, so, no surprise he didn't have a trade market.

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