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Green Bay Packers
The Packers won the weekend at the trade table. Grade: A-.
by emc2feld ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 21 picks
· 7 steals
· 4 reaches
The Packers bet big and early on Jack Westover, 65 picks ahead of the board. Bold does not always mean right. A near-flawless weekend of work, and a A- to cap it.
The trade ledger is the best part of the whole weekend. The Wallace value carries more weight than any single miss elsewhere.
The hoard sets up next April more than it helps this September.
The kind of weekend a front office frames and hangs on the wall.
Pick-by-Pick
No edge and no loss on Sedrick Van Pran in slot 66; it is a wash and a sensible one. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
By-the-book stuff, Max Melton at Round 3, Pick 7 squarely in line with his ranking. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Trey Benson at No. 91 nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
The board had cheaper options than Javon Foster at pick 106, and it noticed. It fills a real need, too.
Ben Sinnott at the 126th overall pick is right where the board had him, plain and simple. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Mohamed Kamara at the Round 5 slot is a sensible buy, a touch better than market for the edge rusher. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Kitan Oladapo is a better player than pick No. 162 suggests; smart patience, rewarded. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
A big swing on Joe Milton III at pick 169, well ahead of any board in the building. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
A clean, defensible pick in the Round 5 slot with a little surplus value in Kamal Hadden. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Fabien Lovett in slot 182 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
A market-rate wide receiver, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Cornelius Johnson. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Somehow Dwight McGlothern was still sitting there in No. 188, and they pounced on premier cornerback value. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
A slide stopped in the 202nd pick, with Trente Jones worth more than the price. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Ryan Flournoy at the 219th overall pick. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
They let Jaylan Ford come to them and pounced at the 220th pick. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
They robbed the room for Caedan Wallace here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. The roster fit checks out.
The board had Daijahn Anthony higher than Round 7, Pick 26, and the cornerback fell to them anyway. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
No drama and no debate, Jalen Sundell went about where he belonged in No. 247. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
They reached into another round for Jack Westover, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. A need, and now a little less of one.
A real head-scratcher, Evan Anderson in the Round 7 slot is miles ahead of his ranking. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
They paid sticker price for Sam Hartman in slot 257, and that is fine. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.