Cincinnati traded defensive end Glen Collins to Green Bay on…

Cincinnati's official player-trade history resolves both the date and the conditional compensation. The Bengals record the transaction on May 12, 1986, not May 13, and state that they acquired an undisclosed future draft choice from Green Bay for defensive end Glen Collins. The same official entry immediately explains the condition's outcome: Collins did not make the Packers' regular-season roster, so no pick was traded. That makes the legacy row's general idea correct but lets TradeVerdicts replace its low-confidence wording with an explicit team-sourced result.

Green Bay's 1986 media guide independently confirms the acquisition. The Packers list Collins as acquired from Cincinnati on May 12 for a conditional undisclosed future draft choice. At the time, he was a four-year veteran and a former Bengals first-round selection who had appeared in all 16 games in both 1984 and 1985. Green Bay therefore was taking a legitimate preseason look at an experienced defensive lineman rather than acquiring an untested camp body.

The roster condition ultimately did not trigger. Pro Football Reference's August 1986 transaction log records Green Bay releasing Collins on August 25. Cincinnati's own history then supplies the contractual consequence: because Collins failed to make the Packers' regular-season roster, no draft choice changed hands. The transaction therefore ended with Green Bay receiving no regular-season games from Collins and Cincinnati receiving no exercised draft asset.

That distinction is important for hindsight grading. It would be incorrect to credit Cincinnati with a late-round selection that never existed, and it would be equally incorrect to credit Green Bay with Collins' prior Bengals production or his later NFL stops. The only post-trade Green Bay outcome was an offseason evaluation followed by a release before Week 1.

Even Trade is the appropriate result. Both clubs receive C- grades because the conditional structure protected Green Bay from paying a pick when Collins failed to make the roster, while Cincinnati lost no subsequent Packers regular-season production but received no compensation. Confidence is high because both teams' records and the transaction log align on the terms and roster outcome.