B-
Green Bay Packers
Nothing loud, just a tidy B- for the Packers.
by jjw924 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 3 steals
· 3 reaches
Call it a hunch or call it a gamble, but the Packers spent Round 5, Pick 32 on Tanor Bortolini, a name most had 49 spots down the list.
They will regret leaving quarterback for another day if the season turns on it. Gore Jr. falling to them is the kind of break a good board is built to catch. On the needs board they went 5 of 8, with edge rusher the one that mattered most.
Good work on the whole, with quarterback the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick No. 25 they get a ballhawk on the outside. The biggest hole, addressed.
A market-rate interior defensive lineman, with the board and the slot shaking hands on T'Vondre Sweat. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
Edgerrin Cooper slid further than he should have, and the Round 2 slot is lovely value for the linebacker. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
No drama and no debate, Marshawn Kneeland went about where he belonged in the 88th overall pick. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Trey Benson at pick 91 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
A quiet steal in the 127th pick: Cole Bishop for less than the market said. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
Tanor Bortolini at the Round 5 slot is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Garret Greenfield in the 204th pick is the kind of reach that only looks good if he outplays it. The roster fit checks out.
They reached into another round for KT Leveston, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
You do not let a running back like Frank Gore Jr. reach slot 243 and blink. They did not. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Edefuan Ulofoshio at pick 251 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.
