D
Green Bay Packers
Harris should have been long gone. The Packers pounced, and earned a D.
by emc2feld ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 28 picks
· 22 steals
· 3 reaches
The Julian Fleming selection is the head-turner. The Packers reached 104 spots for him, and it will define how this weekend is remembered.
If one pick saves this weekend, it is Harris. Overpaying at the table undid a lot of the good work elsewhere. The roster is better shaped than it was, with edge rusher chief among the fixes.
Bottom line, they will be counting on several picks to beat their grades.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 23rd pick they get a sticky cover corner. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
A top-tier linebacker at a bargain, Harold Perkins Jr. in pick No. 55, plain and simple. A minor need, but a need all the same.
A safety of that caliber at slot 56 is the definition of value, full stop. A minor itch, scratched.
A market-rate offensive lineman, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Tate Ratledge. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
The board fumbled Jack Sawyer all the way to pick 59, and they scooped it up. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Taking Princely Umanmielen in slot 61 is close to grand larceny; an edge rusher that good had no business lasting this long. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Somehow Quinshon Judkins was still sitting there in the Round 3 slot, and they pounced on premier running back value. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Jalen Milroe at No. 88 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
They robbed the room for Walter Nolen here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Ashton Gillotte in the 91st overall pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Jonah Monheim at pick No. 120 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. A need, and now a little less of one.
They barely believed it either: Jamon Dumas-Johnson still on the board at Round 4, Pick 26. Stacking talent where they were already deep.
Oscar Delp in the Round 4 slot is a gift, value that borders on unfair. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
They will replay J. Michael Sturdivant at the 135th overall pick for years; that is how good the value is. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Deontae Lawson at pick No. 151 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. It is more luxury than necessity; they were already set here.
Steal is underselling it; Rylie Mills at pick 154 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Malik Spencer slipping to Round 5, Pick 27 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
No drama and no debate, Bryce Foster went about where he belonged in slot 157. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Collin Oliver in the 167th pick is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. Pure best-available; the position was not exactly begging.
You do not let a wide receiver like Tre Harris reach No. 183 and blink. They did not. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Circle this one: Jordan Hancock at Round 6, Pick 26 is a fall that decides a draft. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Wyatt Milum in pick No. 187 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. It fills a real need, too.
A top-tier tight end at a bargain, Benjamin Yurosek in the 189th pick, plain and simple. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
They reached into another round for Julian Fleming, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. The roster fit checks out.
Zion Nelson in the Round 7 slot should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
They barely believed it either: Jack Kiser still on the board at slot 216. Nice player, but the depth chart did not need him here.
Connor Colby in pick 218 is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
A big swing on Chantz Williams at the 221st overall pick, well ahead of any board in the building. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.