B
Green Bay Packers
Bullard should have been long gone. The Packers pounced, and earned a B.
by LeapinLambeaus ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 14 picks
· 7 steals
· 4 reaches
The Packers spent the weekend waiting on one name, and it fell: Javon Bullard, the No. 60 name on the board, in pick 177.
The Hergel reach is the anchor dragging on the value grade. They robbed the room blind at the table, and it lifts the grade on its own.
They covered a lot of ground and still skipped edge rusher, which is a strange place to end up.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In slot 29 they get a go-to option on the outside at fair value. A real need, handled.
They paid sticker price for T'Vondre Sweat in the 41st pick, and that is fine. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
No drama and no debate, Kamren Kinchens went about where he belonged in pick 58. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
Jeremiah Trotter Jr. in pick No. 88 is a gift, value that borders on unfair. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
Blake Fisher in No. 91 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. A need, and now a little less of one.
They will replay Braden Fiske at Round 3, Pick 29 for years; that is how good the value is. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Jaylen Wright at the Round 4 slot 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.
You do not let a safety like Javon Bullard reach the 177th overall pick and blink. They did not. Stacking talent where they were already deep.
The board fumbled Kamal Hadden all the way to Round 6, Pick 29, and they scooped it up. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Jaylan Ford at the 216th pick is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. They added to a strength when a need was still open elsewhere.
A conviction pick on Andrew Raym at No. 217 that the board grades a round light. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Sam Hartman well ahead of where he belonged. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
This one needs a full-page explanation: Ryan Flournoy in the 247th overall pick, miles early. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Value said wait; Kyle Hergel in pick 251 says they were not listening. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
