B-
Green Bay Packers
The Packers checked most of the boxes and earned a B-.
by mhollander21 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 3 steals
· 2 reaches
You can draft well and still miss the point. The Packers did plenty of tidy work and somehow never got around to quarterback, which was the need that mattered most. Solid and sensible more than spectacular: a B-.
Every board in the league had Bills lower, and that gap is the story. Getting Mustapha where they did is the sort of value that quietly makes a class.
Good work on the whole, with quarterback the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 25 they get a ballhawk on the outside. Exactly the need they had to hit.
A market-rate linebacker, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Edgerrin Cooper. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Value with a capital V on Kris Jenkins in the 58th pick, a genuine coup. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Fair-plus on DJ James, a quiet win that adds up over a draft. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
They took Trey Benson at par in Round 3, Pick 28, which is nothing to complain about. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
A tidy bit of business in pick No. 127, where Javon Foster graded well above the range. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
A slide stopped in the 168th overall pick, with Malik Mustapha worth more than the price. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
Josh Proctor at slot 204 jumps the queue by a touch more than is comfortable. A luxury on a unit that was already in good shape.
A conviction pick on Keaton Bills at No. 216 that the board grades a round light. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Nothing to complain about; KT Leveston went a shade earlier than his grade, which is fine. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
LaDarius Henderson in pick No. 251 is fine work, a shade of surplus and no downside. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
