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Green Bay Packers
Nobody dealt better than the Packers this weekend: A-.
by gerald-grayhotmailcom ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 24 picks
· 12 steals
· 8 reaches
The Packers torched the value chart for Tim Smith, taking him 56 spots sooner than anyone had him slotted.
That Egbuka pick is the receipt they will wave around later. The dealing alone would carry a lesser class.
The imported veterans give this class a floor the draft picks could not on their own.
In the end it comes back to Tyler Nubin, and a haul good enough to build on right away.
Pick-by-Pick
In Round 1, Pick 22 they get a blindside protector. A clean fit for the roster.
In pick 32 they get a two-high chess piece, outstanding value to boot. Need was not the driver here.
Trey Benson at the 44th overall pick is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
A top-tier wide receiver at a bargain, Johnny Wilson in pick No. 48, plain and simple. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
T.J. Tampa slipping to No. 59 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Circle this one: Jordan Morgan at the 71st pick is a fall that decides a draft. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Emeka Egbuka in No. 75 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Braelon Allen at Round 3, Pick 12 is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
A market-rate interior defensive lineman, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Michael Hall Jr.. The roster fit checks out.
Tommy Eichenberg in the Round 3 slot is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
A big swing on Junior Colson at slot 87, well ahead of any board in the building. Depth on depth, at a spot that was hardly crying out.
They let Dominick Puni come to them and pounced at pick No. 107. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
TreVeyon Henderson in the 111th overall pick is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
They went early on AJ Barner in pick 112, and the value did not follow. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
A wild overpay on Ashton Gillotte in No. 123, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
They read the board right and Jaden Hicks was the payoff at Round 4, Pick 35. Insurance at a position that did not really ask for it.
Taking Nehemiah Pritchett in the 189th overall pick is close to grand larceny; a cornerback that good had no business lasting this long. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
They barely believed it either: Connor Colby still on the board at pick 190. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
They paid sticker price for Graham Mertz in the 205th pick, and that is fine. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
They talked themselves into Tim Smith at slot 211, and the board did not agree. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Value said wait; Justin Eboigbe in the Round 6 slot says they were not listening. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Jack Nelson in pick No. 219 is a gift, value that borders on unfair. It fills a real need, too.
Joshua Gray at slot 232 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
De'Corian Clark at No. 248 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. A need, and now a little less of one.