B-
Green Bay Packers
The Packers checked most of the boxes and earned a B-.
by hf15 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 12 picks
· 4 steals
· 2 reaches
There was a run on nobody at that position, and the Packers started one anyway for Keilan Robinson, 52 picks ahead of schedule. The bottom line is a respectable B-.
Pearsall falling to them is the kind of break a good board is built to catch. 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 slot 25 they get a building block for the line, and a steal at that. A real need, handled.
Kamari Lassiter in Round 2, Pick 9 is fair value, right on his grade. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
No edge and no loss on Kingsley Suamataia in pick No. 58; it is a wash and a sensible one. A need, and now a little less of one.
Ricky Pearsall at the 88th pick is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. The roster fit checks out.
Value said wait; Cedric Gray in pick 91 says they were not listening. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
A straight-up fair deal on Isaac Guerendo at No. 126, value and slot in agreement. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
AJ Barner in the Round 5 slot is exactly on the number, no argument either way. It fills a real need, too.
Joe Milton III at slot 202 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Frank Gore Jr. at the 219th pick is right where the board had him, plain and simple. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Taking Trevin Wallace in No. 255 is close to grand larceny; a linebacker that good had no business lasting this long. Depth on depth, at a spot that was hardly crying out.
They let Marcellas Dial come to them and pounced at Round 7, Pick 36. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
A real head-scratcher, Keilan Robinson in pick 257 is miles ahead of his ranking. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
