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Green Bay Packers
The Packers got the worse of every deal, and it shows in the C.
by emc2feld ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 16 picks
· 2 steals
· 4 reaches
The phones were a trap the Packers kept walking into, shipping out surplus on nearly every deal.
The Briggs pick is the one the value grade keeps tripping over. McCormick falling to them is the kind of break a good board is built to catch.
It is a bet on later, and a defensible one for a team playing the long game.
If Jaylen Wright and a couple of the gambles land, hindsight will be kinder than this grade.
Pick-by-Pick
A tidy little value on Jaylen Wright in the Round 2 slot, a step better than break-even. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Patrick Paul in pick No. 83 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
A clean, defensible pick in the 88th pick with a little surplus value in Malik Washington. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Value said wait; DeWayne Carter in Round 3, Pick 28 says they were not listening. It fills a real need, too.
DJ James in slot 93 is fair value, right on his grade. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Value with a capital V on Ben Sinnott in No. 113, a genuine coup. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Mohamed Kamara at the 114th overall pick is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
A reasonable price with a little left over, Zak Zinter in pick 116. The roster fit checks out.
They took Malik Mustapha at par in slot 126, which is nothing to complain about. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
Trevin Wallace at the 154th pick nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Mason McCormick at the Round 5 slot is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
They jumped the gun on Jordan Travis, taking him earlier than his grade liked. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
A market-rate linebacker, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Nathaniel Watson. A luxury on a unit that was already in good shape.
Trey Taylor at the 219th overall pick jumps the queue by a touch more than is comfortable. A want more than a need, though you can never have too many.
Jowon Briggs at pick No. 245 is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Tatum Bethune at pick 255 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. Pure best-available; the position was not exactly begging.