Five Players The Green Bay Packers Should Consider Trading For

Green Bay Packers Pro Bowl wide receiver Davante Adams has a turf toe injury that could keep him sidelined for a while yet.

Marquez Valdes-Scantling appears to be a one-trick pony. Geronimo Allison is limited and injury prone. Jimmy Graham can't run anymore and seemingly slips and falls more than any player in football. And Allen Lazard, Darrius Shepherd and Jake Kumerow were all undrafted for a reason.

Somehow, someway Green Bay defeated the Detroit Lions, 23-22, with this motley crew of pass catchers Monday night. Lazard played hero with four catches for 65 yards and a touchdown in the fourth quarter, while 35-year-old tight end Marcedes Lewis turned back the clock and caught two passes for 50 yards.

Green Bay's win over Detroit vaulted it to a 5-1 mark overall and a perfect 3-0 record against NFC North foes. It's clear, though, that the Packers need more weapons in the passing game - even when Adams returns - if they hope to make a deep playoff run.

Good thing for Green Bay, several teams will likely be sellers when the NFL trade deadline arrives on Oct. 29. Here are five players that could be on the move that would provide a huge lift to the Packers' passing game.

The Dan Quinn regime is about to end in Atlanta, where the Falcons are a disappointing 1-5. The question is will the Falcons blow up the roster? If they do, the Packers should pursue Hooper - whose contract expires after 2019 - with gusto.

Through six games, Hooper has 42 receptions for 480 yards and three touchdowns. That puts him on pace for 112 catches, 1,280 yards and eight touchdowns.

The Packers have been looking for a quality tight end for years, and don't have an answer on the current roster. Graham is a shell of his former self, while Lewis gives great effort, but is on his last legs.

Back in 1995, general manager Ron Wolf gave up a second-round draft pick for tight end Keith Jackson, who was integral in the Packers' 1996 Super Bowl title. The price tag on Hooper would likely be similar, but could also yield similar results.

The Broncos (2-4) would like to build for the future and acquire additional draft picks in 2020, and beyond. Sanders, 32, is the type of player who could bring back draft capital.

Sanders has 560 career catches, 39 touchdowns and more than 7,300 receiving yards. Sanders doesn't run the 40 in 4.41 seconds like he did when he entered the league in 2010, but he also runs the full route tree and knows how to get open.

Sanders would be a major upgrade from Valdes-Scantling and would be the type of veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers would trust immediately.

The Bengals say they won't deal Green. But with Green, 31, in his final years and the Bengals (0-6) in full rebuild, it makes little sense for these two parties to stay hitched.

Green has missed the first six games of 2019 due to ankle surgery, but is nearing a return. If Green is even close to the player he was when he comes back, he could take Green Bay's offense to a new level.

Green has 602 career receptions, 63 touchdowns and nearly 9,000 yards despite catching most of his passes from Andy Dalton. Just imagine what could happen if Rodgers and Green teamed up?

As a member of the Seattle Seahawks back in 2012, Tate caught the controversial, winning touchdown pass against Green Bay in a game famously known as 'Fail Mary.' Most of Packer Nation has cringed every time they've heard Tate's name since, but the truth is he could help Green Bay in 2019.

Tate, 31, is a savvy veteran who knows how to get open. Tate has 620 career catches for 7,329 yards and 39 touchdowns.

Tate can operate outside or from the slot and would immediately give Rodgers another player he could rely on.

Tate's guaranteed money in 2020 was also voided following his four-game suspension for violating the NFL's Performance Enhancing Drug Policy.

Howard, a first-round draft pick in 2019, has been a forgotten man in first-year coach Bruce Arians' offense and is being mentioned in several trade rumors.

It seems ludicrous that the Buccaneers would trade a player who stands 6-foot-6, weighs 250 pounds and runs the 40 in 4.51 seconds. Then again, this is the franchise that released defensive lineman Gerald McCoy in June and has since watched him shine for divisional foe Carolina.

Howard has just 73 catches and 11 touchdowns in his first 2 ¼ years in Tampa Bay. His upside is extremely high, though, and he could be the type of tight end the Packers have been searching high and low for.