B-
Green Bay Packers
The Packers checked most of the boxes and earned a B-.
by emc2feld ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 4 steals
· 4 reaches
The Packers treated their own grade as gospel and everyone else's as noise, spending the 250th pick on Dontae Manning a full 135 spots early.
On value alone, Bryant makes the weekend a net positive. The edge rusher hole is the one line item this class does not answer. The dealing nudged the ledger their way without much fuss.
Not a headline-grabber, but a perfectly good weekend's work.
Pick-by-Pick
In Round 1, Pick 24 they get a building block for the line at fair value. A clean fit for the roster.
They barely believed it either: Deone Walker still on the board at the 55th overall pick. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Smael Mondon Jr. at slot 86 is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
They will replay Kevin Winston Jr. at the 125th pick for years; that is how good the value is. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Good price on Davison Igbinosun in the Round 6 slot, a hair ahead of his grade with no real quibbles. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Circle this one: Cobee Bryant at pick No. 197 is a fall that decides a draft. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Kurtis Rourke at pick 218 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Jake Majors in No. 248 is a bet on their own eyes over everyone else's grade. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
They left a pile of value on the table to take Dontae Manning this early at the Round 7 slot. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Kaytron Allen well ahead of where he belonged. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Xavian Sorey Jr. at the 253rd pick is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. Depth on depth, at a spot that was hardly crying out.
