B-
Green Bay Packers
The Packers did the meat-and-potatoes work well: B-.
by FreshPrinceOfGB ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 7 picks
· 5 steals
· 0 reaches
The weekend has a hole in the middle of it named edge rusher, a need the Packers walked right past. They moved the roster forward and banked a B- for it.
Getting Cooper where they did is the sort of value that quietly makes a class. The roster is better shaped than it was, with cornerback chief among the fixes.
The weekend tilted hard toward the defense.
In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the edge rusher spot they never got to.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 25 they get a pocket-collapsing interior rusher at fair value.
Adonai Mitchell at the 41st pick is money in the bank, a wide receiver taken below his worth. The roster fit checks out.
A tidy bit of business in Round 2, Pick 26, where Edgerrin Cooper graded well above the range. A minor need, but a need all the same.
Jaden Hicks at the 88th overall pick is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
They paid sticker price for Trey Benson in the Round 3 slot, and that is fine. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Andru Phillips at No. 127 is the proof. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
The board had Mason McCormick higher than slot 168, and the offensive lineman fell to them anyway. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.