C+
Green Bay Packers
Flashes of a plan, unevenly run, for the Packers: C+.
by emc2feld ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 23 picks
· 6 steals
· 10 reaches
Some picks age like wine; Devin Culp at pick No. 255 will need to, sitting 48 spots clear of his grade.
McCaffrey at that cost is the sort of edge that compounds over a roster. The Packers paired the rookies with proven help, Creed Humphrey leading the way. A small leak at the table, if not a fatal one.
Bottom line, the swing picks will decide whether this ages well.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 25th overall pick they get a potential shutdown corner at fair value. The biggest hole, addressed.
No drama and no debate, Darius Robinson went about where he belonged in pick No. 41. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Junior Colson is a better player than Round 2, Pick 31 suggests; smart patience, rewarded. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
DJ James in No. 64 is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
They let Payton Wilson come to them and pounced at the 66th pick. A luxury on a unit that was already in good shape.
Somehow Braden Fiske was still sitting there in pick 88, and they pounced on premier interior defensive lineman value. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Ben Sinnott well ahead of where he belonged. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
They took Cedric Gray at par in pick 110, which is nothing to complain about. Stacking talent where they were already deep.
Roger Rosengarten at the Round 4 slot is a conviction pick that outran the value. It fills a real need, too.
Isaac Guerendo at pick No. 126 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
They paid sticker price for Malik Mustapha in Round 5, Pick 33, and that is fine. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
They barely believed it either: Luke McCaffrey still on the board at the 181st pick. A need, and now a little less of one.
Joe Milton III at the 182nd overall pick is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
A reach on Trente Jones in No. 186; the board had better options right there. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
No edge and no loss on Jaylan Ford in pick No. 202; it is a wash and a sensible one. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.
A slide stopped in pick 219, with Caedan Wallace worth more than the price. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
They reached into another round for Trey Taylor, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. Nice player, but the depth chart did not need him here.
They jumped the gun on Trevin Wallace, taking him earlier than his grade liked. They doubled down on a strength rather than a need.
The board had cheaper options than Edefuan Ulofoshio at the Round 7 slot, and it noticed. Pure best-available; the position was not exactly begging.
The board screamed and they did not listen, reaching into the next round for Sam Hartman. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
They reached a country mile for Omar Brown at the 245th pick, and the board is aghast. Insurance at a position that did not really ask for it.
A straight-up fair deal on Ryan Watts at No. 253, value and slot in agreement. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
A wild overpay on Devin Culp in the 255th overall pick, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.