B-
Green Bay Packers
The Packers cashed the board's mistake on Jones: B-.
by 57packer ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 5 steals
· 2 reaches
The board owed the Packers one, and it paid up: Jarrian Jones, the No. 149 name on the board, sitting there at No. 204 like a gift left on the doorstep.
The edge rusher hole is the one line item this class does not answer. Bishop has a lot of ground to make up just to look fairly priced.
Value over need was the throughline, for better and worse.
In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the edge rusher spot they never got to.
Pick-by-Pick
By-the-book stuff, Terrion Arnold at No. 25 squarely in line with his ranking. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Troy Fautanu is a better player than pick 41 suggests; smart patience, rewarded. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
They paid sticker price for Max Melton in the Round 2 slot, and that is fine. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Cole Bishop at the 88th overall pick is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. A minor need, but a need all the same.
Trey Benson at pick No. 91 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Brenden Rice at Round 4, Pick 27 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Isaiah Davis at the 168th pick nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Jarrian Jones in slot 204 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Trevin Wallace in No. 216 is a bet on their own eyes over everyone else's grade. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
They let Rasheen Ali come to them and pounced at pick No. 243. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Brevyn Spann-Ford at Round 7, Pick 31 is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. A need, and now a little less of one.