Colts reportedly trading LB Zaire Franklin, NFL’s leading tackler in 2024, to Packers for DT Colby Wooden

The Indianapolis Colts are trading linebacker Zaire Franklin to the Green Bay Packers and receiving defensive sort out Colby Wooden in return, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero reported Saturday.

As a consequence, the Colts will shed greater than $7 million value of wage, by Pelisseroin addition to including a starter on the defensive inside. Wooden, a 2023 fourth-round select of Auburn, piled up 50 complete tackles final season, together with six for losses.

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Just two seasons in the past, Franklin earned second-team All-Pro honors and a Pro Bowl nod when he led the NFL with 173 complete tackles.

The Colts drafted Franklin out of Syracuse in the seventh spherical again in 2018, and he carved out a task for himself earlier than changing into an on a regular basis starter in the second stage of the Colts’ protection, the place he totaled triple-digit sort out numbers every of the previous 4 seasons.

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