The Green Bay Packers have managed to stay competitive through the early portion of the 2026 season despite a glaring hole in their backfield.
Sitting at 3-2 and in the thick of the NFC North race, the team has leaned heavily on Jordan Love’s arm to move the ball, as their ground game ranks dead last in the NFL at roughly 60 yards per game.
That shortfall stems largely from the continued absence of Josh Jacobs, who remains on the Commissioner’s Exempt List while the league reviews a personal conduct matter stemming from a May domestic incident.
With the trade deadline still weeks away and no firm timeline for Jacobs’ return, Green Bay has clear incentive to explore outside options that could stabilize the run game without a massive long-term commitment.
In his 2026 NFL Trade Block Big Board entering Week 6, Bleacher Report’s Kristopher Knox identified the Packers as one of two logical destinations for Tennessee Titans running back Tony Pollard, ranking the former Pro Bowler ninth among the top trade candidates league-wide.
Knox projected a conditional 2027 fifth-round pick as a reasonable return, noting that the winless Titans are already pivoting toward the future and that Pollard, a 29-year-old pending free agent, is unlikely to factor into those plans.
Moving him would also free up roughly $7.3 million in cap space for Tennessee while supplying draft capital that could support the development of second-year quarterback Cam Ward.
Pollard’s résumé makes the fit easy to understand for a contender dealing with short-term uncertainty.
He has posted multiple consecutive 1,000-yard seasons in recent years and, even on a struggling Titans offense this fall, has carried the ball 68 times for 273 yards and a touchdown through five games while remaining a reliable between-the-tackles option.
A cascade of running-back injuries across the league in Week 5 only heightened the value of proven veterans on expiring deals, and Green Bay’s committee of younger or less-established backs has yet to generate consistent production in Jacobs’ absence.
For the Packers, a mid-round conditional pick represents a relatively low-risk way to add immediate experience and volume without locking themselves into a big-money extension for a player approaching age 30.
Whether they ultimately pursue the deal will depend on how the Jacobs situation evolves and how aggressively general manager Brian Gutekunst wants to address the ground game before the November 10 deadline.
Still, Knox’s inclusion of Green Bay among Pollard’s top suitors underscores how the team’s current circumstances align with a market that is already producing notable in-season moves.
The Packers will face the Dallas Cowboys this Sunday.
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