C-
Green Bay Packers
The phones sank the Packers this weekend: C-.
by emc2feld ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 12 picks
· 3 steals
· 4 reaches
The Packers bet big and early on Jacob Dobbs, 98 picks ahead of the board. Bold does not always mean right. It nets out a thoroughly average C-.
Getting Uiagalelei where they did is the sort of value that quietly makes a class. The trades bled value they could not afford to lose.
The verdict is a shrug for now, with the swing picks left to write the real ending.
Pick-by-Pick
Will Johnson in No. 23 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Good price on JT Tuimoloau in the Round 1 slot, a hair ahead of his grade with no real quibbles. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
A reasonable price with a little left over, Xavier Nwankpa in pick 55. A minor itch, scratched.
A market-rate offensive lineman, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Tate Ratledge. A need, and now a little less of one.
No edge and no loss on Trevor Etienne in slot 87; it is a wash and a sensible one. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
The board fumbled Jonah Monheim all the way to pick No. 119, and they scooped it up. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Zach Rice at the 151st overall pick is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
DJ Uiagalelei at No. 155 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
A clean, defensible pick in slot 183 with a little surplus value in Benjamin Yurosek. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
The board screamed and they did not listen, reaching into the next round for Keeshawn Silver. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Julian Fleming at the 216th pick is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. It fills a real need, too.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Jacob Dobbs well ahead of where he belonged. It adds depth where they could use a little.
