Ian Rapoport outlines what Packers could get in Aaron Rodgers trade

The NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport outlined on The Pat McAfee Show Friday what the Green Bay Packers could potentially net in a trade for quarterback Aaron Rodgers, as well as explaining why trading him is going to be so insanely difficult in the first place.

Ian Rapport explained what it will take for a team to orchestrate a trade with the Green Bay Packers for their superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

The NFL Network insider revealed on The Pat McAfee Show Friday that it would take at least multiple first-round picks to satisfy the Packers’ steep trade demands for Rodgers. While he might be in his late 30s, Rodgers will be winning his fourth league MVP and his second in as many years this season. Unfortunately, none of that individual success has translated to very much in January.

Though most people are trying to connect Rodgers to the Denver Broncos, especially after they hired his former offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett to be their next head coach, there are still so many moving pieces that will make a trade of this magnitude so potential laborious to pull off.

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Green Bay Packers: Ian Rapoport says what it will take to deal for Aaron Rodgers

What makes potentially trading Rodgers so difficult is three-fold. One, if the Packers want to do right by him, it would have to be to a destination he is comfortable with going to. Two, even if the Packers find a place Rodgers wants to go to, they are going to need adequate compensation to pull the trigger. And three, once Rodgers arrives at his new team, the cupboard cannot be bare.

In short, the combination of a preferred destination, a sizable trade offering and a roster that is ready to compete despite losing so much capital in the trade makes this blockbuster trade all the more challenging. Denver may make the most sense on paper, but it does not serve Hackett and general manager George Paton to have all their future draft assets liquidated over to Green Bay.

Though Denver is the clear favorite to land Rodgers in a trade, there is so much work to be done.