B-
Green Bay Packers
Good, not great, for the Packers: B-.
by GARRYR999 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 1 steals
· 2 reaches
It is a puzzling start. The Packers had edge rusher, quarterback and other spots to solve and reached instead for Cole Bishop, a safety, at the 91st overall pick.
If Bishop pans out, nobody remembers the price. If not, this is the pick they hear about. A whole weekend of picks and edge rusher is somehow still a want.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In the Round 1 slot they get a ballhawk on the outside at fair value. Exactly the need they had to hit.
A straight-up fair deal on Tyler Nubin at pick No. 41, value and slot in agreement. It adds depth where they could use a little.
By-the-book stuff, Jeremiah Trotter Jr. at No. 58 squarely in line with his ranking. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Caelen Carson in slot 88 is fair value, right on his grade. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
A curious use of pick 91. Edge rusher, quarterback and other spots needed the pick; a safety in Cole Bishop did not.
McKinnley Jackson in Round 4, Pick 27 is fine work, a shade of surplus and no downside. It fills a real need, too.
Isaiah Davis at the Round 5 slot nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
They went early on Garret Greenfield in the 204th pick, and the value did not follow. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Tanor Bortolini at the 216th overall pick is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
They took LaDarius Henderson at par in pick 243, which is nothing to complain about. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Value with a capital V on Kimani Vidal in pick No. 251, a genuine coup. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
