The Buffalo Bills needed help at every level of their defense after injuries tore through their roster. On Tuesday, they solved at least one of them as they traded for cornerback Rasul Douglas from the Green Bay Packers.
Former Green Bay Packers cornerback Rasul Douglas couldn’t believe he was being traded to the Buffalo Bills and he was being told this information by a high-ranking front office member.
In his first session with Buffalo reporters on Thursday, Douglas was asked to explain his reaction to being traded.
Douglas thought it was a joke when Packers GM Brian Gutekunst told him he was being traded to Buffalo so he hung up on him.
“My initial reaction?” Douglas said. “At first, because [G.M. Brian Gutekunst] called me . . . I thought it was like a joke. . . . [H]e didn’t say too much. He just was like, ‘We’re trading you.’ And then it was over, the conversation was over. I just hung up. And then like [CEO] Mark Murphy called me. And he got a voice that’s like, you know that it’s him. So I’m like, ‘Oh, now, this ain’t no joke.’”
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In the end, Douglas was happy to have ended up in Buffalo.
“We were 2-5, so this definitely was a winning team, so,” Douglas said.
The Packers are in the midst of a tough season and it’s to the point where trading away some veterans is probably in their best interest. In exchange for trading Douglas, the Packers received a third-round pick for Douglas and a fifth-round pick.
Green Bay is stockpiling picks in the 2024 NFL draft.
In 2023, Douglas appeared in seven games for the Packers and recorded 32 tackles, a fumble recovery, an interception, and six defenses.
