PACKERS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B+

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The Packers let Thomas Jr. fall and pounced. Final grade: B+.

by BUZZMON · 2024 NFL Draft · 15 picks · 10 steals · 2 reaches
Value B+
Need B
Trades A+
Future B

The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Brian Thomas Jr., pick 128, roughly 101 picks past where he belonged. The bottom line is a respectable B+.

They won the margins on every swap, and it adds up fast. They are betting Jacobs proves the room right and everyone else wrong.

A whole weekend of picks and quarterback is somehow still a want. Spending an early pick on safety with quarterback and tight end open is the decision the grade keeps circling back to.

A competent weekend that does not make headlines and does not need to.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.32 · Pick 32 · Tyler Guyton · OT · rank 28
In the Round 1 slot they get a building block for the line. A real need, handled.
R2.11 · Pick 43 · Cooper DeJean · CB · rank 26
Cooper DeJean slid further than he should have, and the 43rd overall pick is lovely value for the cornerback. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R2.26 · Pick 58 · Edgerrin Cooper · LB · rank 49
The board had Edgerrin Cooper higher than Round 2, Pick 26, and the linebacker fell to them anyway. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
R3.25 · Pick 88 · Graham Barton · OT · rank 25
Graham Barton in pick No. 88 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
R3.27 · Pick 90 · Max Melton · CB · rank 76
Max Melton at No. 90 is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R3.28 · Pick 91 · Trey Benson · RB · rank 87
Trey Benson at pick 91 nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
R3.32 · Pick 95 · Austin Booker · DE-EDGE · rank 77
Austin Booker in the 95th pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R4.26 · Pick 126 · Jaden Hicks · S · rank 85
Circle this one: Jaden Hicks at slot 126 is a fall that decides a draft. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
R4.28 · Pick 128 · Brian Thomas Jr. · WR · rank 27
A top-tier wide receiver at a bargain, Brian Thomas Jr. in Round 4, Pick 28, plain and simple. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
R4.32 · Pick 132 · MarShawn Lloyd · RB · rank 97
MarShawn Lloyd at the 132nd overall pick is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R4.34 · Pick 134 · Dadrion Taylor-Demerson · S · rank 86
Hard to square with the roster. With positions of obvious need still on the board, Dadrion Taylor-Demerson adds a safety and leaves quarterback and tight end untouched.
R5.33 · Pick 169 · Curtis Jacobs · LB · rank 198
They left a pile of value on the table to take Curtis Jacobs this early at the Round 5 slot. They added to a strength when a need was still open elsewhere.
R6.27 · Pick 202 · Gabe Hall · DL · rank 221
Value said wait; Gabe Hall in pick No. 202 says they were not listening. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
R6.44 · Pick 219 · Jordan Magee · LB · rank 222
Jordan Magee in No. 219 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. Stacking talent where they were already deep.
R7.1 · Pick 221 · Nehemiah Pritchett · CB · rank 143
They barely believed it either: Nehemiah Pritchett still on the board at slot 221. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
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