GREEN BAY — Of the five trades Ted Thompson pulled off during the NFL draft, it was a tough call on which one was stranger:

The Green Bay Packers' pick-hoarding general manager actually trading up for the first time in his life, or him making a deal with one of the club's NFC North Division rivals, the Minnesota Vikings.

"No. 2 is kind of weird," Thompson admitted.

The Packers sent the 137th overall pick to the Vikings, who used it on Southern Cal quarterback John David Booty, and in return received the 150th pick (a fifth-rounder used on Louisville tackle Breno Giacomini) and the 209th pick (a seventh-rounder used on LSU quarterback Matt Flynn).

"We thought it was an appropriate trade for the Packers," Thompson said when asked why he would make a trade with a division rival.

"We don't do a lot of deals with anybody in our division — certainly not player-for-player — but in the draft, it's all numbers, draft slots. If they do a good job with the pick they receive from us and we do a good job with the picks we receive from them, it's not that big a deal."

Said Vikings vice president of player personnel Rick Spielman: "The picks are your currency. So it's not as big a factor, especially if we covet something that they don't covet and they may want to accumulate more picks. If it's a player involved, that might be a whole different ballgame."

Thompson said personnel lieutenants John Schneider, John Dorsey and Reggie McKenzie, along with chief contract negotiator Russ Ball, fielded a number of trade offers. Ball, who joined the club from New Orleans this offseason, presumably was key to the final trade of the day, in which the Packers acquired the Saints' 2009 sixth-round pick for the 237th overall pick this year.

"Quite frankly, I was hoping to do a couple of deals like we did with New Orleans and get an extra pick (next year)," Thompson said.

According to the traditional trade value chart, the deal with the Vikings was the only one of Thompson's four deals involving 2008 picks that favored the Packers, 39.2 points to 37.5 points. His first deal, with the New York Jets to move out of the 30th overall pick, was minus-12 for Green Bay; the deal to move up (again with the Jets) was minus-2.6, and his deal with St. Louis to move back was minus-1.9.

Brotherly shove

Those brutal one-on-one, pass-rushing drills in training camp got a lot more interesting Sunday with the Packers' selection of Wake Forest defensive end Jeremy Thompson.

His older brother, Orrin, is a left tackle who spent four games on the Packers' 53-man roster and time on the practice squad the past two years.

"That'll be interesting. It'll be fun," offensive line coach James Campen said.

"Orrin is a great kid, high character, and he speaks nothing but with high regard for his little brother. I'm sure that at the Thompson household tonight there's two very proud parents. I'd imagine that their mom and dad, they probably had to tug them apart as little kids for fighting and messing around. Now they get to do it on a big stage."

Love at first sight

Third-round pick Jermichael Finley got the feeling at the scouting combine in February that he'd end up with the Packers because the team showed a lot of interest in the Texas sophomore tight end during his time in Indianapolis.

"I thought for a long time it was probably going to be Green Bay," Finley said. "I was excited from Day One that Green Bay wanted me because Green Bay is a real nice atmosphere. I'm going to love playing in Green Bay."

Said Thompson: "At Indy, we tell a lot of people we're very high on them. Other teams do, too."

Hurry-up offense

Commissioner Roger Goodell accomplished his goal of speeding up the draft.

After last year's first round took 6 hours, 8 minutes and the first three rounds took 11 hours, 4 minutes, this year's first round took 3 hours, 30 minutes. The first two rounds combined this year took only 5 hours, 53 minutes.

Extra points

Among the undrafted free agents the Packers signed Sunday night were University of Wisconsin punter Ken DeBauche, a Suamico native who played at Bay Port High School, and Notre Dame long-snapper J.J. Jansen. UW-Whitewater running back Justin Beaver will take part in the rookie orientation camp that begins Friday on a tryout basis, according to a source. ... The Packers did not draft a running back, though they did add one with a draft pick from this year, having dealt their sixth-round pick before training camp to the New York Giants for leading rusher Ryan Grant. "If you look at the players that went today in the sixth round, you'd probably rather have Ryan," Thompson said. ... Thompson said it's "fine" that Grant has yet to sign his exclusive-rights free-agent tender.