B-
Green Bay Packers
The Packers won the night they stopped Jenkins from sliding. Grade: B-.
by Mike W ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 15 picks
· 3 steals
· 6 reaches
The Packers spent the weekend waiting on one name, and it fell: Kris Jenkins, the No. 50 name on the board, in the Round 3 slot. Call it a sensible B-, earned the boring way.
The cost of the Milton III reach is exactly the players who went right after him. A whole weekend of picks and wide receiver is somehow still a want.
A competent weekend that does not make headlines and does not need to.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick No. 25 they get protection for the quarterback at fair value.
Edgerrin Cooper at pick 51 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
Somehow Kris Jenkins was still sitting there in slot 84, and they pounced on premier edge rusher value. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Dominick Puni in Round 3, Pick 25 is fair value, right on his grade. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
A premium they did not need to pay, Cole Bishop a notch or two before his time. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
They took Elijah Jones at par in the 108th pick, which is nothing to complain about. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Jarrian Jones at the 126th overall pick is a conviction pick that outran the value. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
No drama and no debate, Isaac Guerendo went about where he belonged in No. 129. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Value said wait; Joe Milton III in Round 5, Pick 31 says they were not listening. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
A big swing on Tanor Bortolini at the Round 5 slot, well ahead of any board in the building. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Tip Reiman at pick 195 is money in the bank, a tight end taken below his worth. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
Trevin Wallace at the 202nd pick is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.
They went early on Dominique Hampton in slot 219, and the value did not follow. Depth on depth, at a spot that was hardly crying out.
A quiet steal in pick No. 245: Michael Barrett for less than the market said. Nice player, but the depth chart did not need him here.
By-the-book stuff, Ryan Watts at the 255th overall pick squarely in line with his ranking. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
