B-
Green Bay Packers
No fireworks, just a tidy B- for the Packers.
by emc2feld ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 13 picks
· 3 steals
· 6 reaches
The Packers treated their own grade as gospel and everyone else's as noise, spending pick No. 255 on Jarrett Kingston a full 58 spots early. No fireworks, but a solid B-.
Spending an early pick on safety with interior defensive lineman open is the decision the grade keeps circling back to. Leaving interior defensive lineman unaddressed is the roster risk they will have to answer for in the fall.
Solid rather than spectacular, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 25th pick they get a plug-and-play piece up front. A clean fit for the roster.
A market-rate linebacker, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Junior Colson. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Jermaine Burton in the Round 3 slot lands just on the right side of the ledger. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
A quiet steal in Round 3, Pick 25: Dadrion Taylor-Demerson for less than the market said. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Khyree Jackson at pick No. 91 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
The board had cheaper options than Mohamed Kamara at slot 98, and it noticed. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
The eyebrow-raiser of the weekend. They went safety with Malik Mustapha while clear needs at interior defensive lineman sat open.
A reach on Isaac Guerendo in No. 126; the board had better options right there. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Dallin Holker in Round 5, Pick 33 is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. It fills a real need, too.
They jumped the gun on Joe Milton III, taking him earlier than his grade liked. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Nathaniel Watson in slot 219. Nice player, but the depth chart did not need him here.
They talked themselves into Jalen Sundell at the 245th pick, and the board did not agree. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
A real head-scratcher, Jarrett Kingston in the Round 7 slot is miles ahead of his ranking. A need, and now a little less of one.
