B-
Green Bay Packers
Best value of the weekend goes to the Packers for Hicks: B-.
by john ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 6 picks
· 2 steals
· 1 reaches
Priorities are a choice, and the Packers made a strange one, taking Jaden Hicks at safety in pick 91 with cornerback, quarterback and other spots crying out for the pick instead. It does the job without flash, and the B- reflects it.
The cornerback spot stays a question, and it was the one they most needed an answer at. They banked enough surplus on Hicks to cover a lot of smaller sins. The cost of the Robinson reach is exactly the players who went right after him.
In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick No. 25 they get a disruptor off the edge, though they paid up to get him. The biggest hole, addressed.
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Graham Barton at the 41st overall pick. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Javon Bullard at No. 58 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Blake Corum at pick 88 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
A curious use of Round 3, Pick 28. Cornerback, quarterback and other spots needed the pick; a safety in Jaden Hicks did not.
A straight-up fair deal on Cedric Gray at the Round 4 slot, value and slot in agreement. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.