When Thompson traded Favre to the Jets, Green Bay ended up getting a third-round pick in return, the 83rd pick in the 2009 draft. The Packers, on draft day 2009, had already taken B.J. Raji in the first round, and now, late in the round, were calling around, trying hard to find a pick to take one more player in round one. They began talking to New England, sitting at 26, and could give second- and third-round picks, the 41st and 73rd overall, but that wasn’t quite enough. They needed to sweeten the pot with one more good pick. So Thompson threw in the 83rd pick … the pick acquired from the Jets for Favre.

“There has been a trade, and with the 26th pick in the 2009 NFL Draft,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said moments later in New York, “the Green Bay Packers have selected Clay Matthews, linebacker, USC.”

Via Peter King, Sports Illustrated.