C+
Green Bay Packers
The Packers let Nolen fall into their laps, and walked away with a C+.
by Chaswerner ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 6 picks
· 6 steals
· 0 reaches
Thirty-one other rooms let Walter Nolen slide, and the Packers were the ones holding the card at slot 138. Highway robbery. The final tally is a middling C+.
They handed away value on the phones that the picks cannot earn back. The quarterback hole is the one line item this class does not answer.
If Princely Umanmielen and a couple of the gambles land, hindsight will be kinder than this grade.
Pick-by-Pick
In the Round 1 slot they get a disruptor off the edge, and a steal at that. Exactly the need they had to hit.
Ashton Jeanty at No. 35 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Jahdae Barron at pick No. 87 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Somehow Tre Harris was still sitting there in the 91st pick, and they pounced on premier wide receiver value. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
A top-tier offensive lineman at a bargain, Wyatt Milum in slot 122, plain and simple. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Walter Nolen at Round 5, Pick 1 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.