B-
Green Bay Packers
A sensible, unshowy class lands the Packers a B-.
by LeapinLambeaus ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 12 picks
· 2 steals
· 6 reaches
The Packers treated their own grade as gospel and everyone else's as noise, spending pick 240 on Drake Nugent a full 75 spots early. It does the job without flash, and the B- reflects it.
If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through edge rusher. If one pick saves this weekend, it is Pearsall.
Small wins on the phones, but wins all the same.
A competent weekend that does not make headlines and does not need to.
Pick-by-Pick
In No. 20 they get a ballhawk on the back end. Need was not the driver here.
No drama and no debate, Troy Fautanu went about where he belonged in slot 40. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
The board had cheaper options than Jermaine Burton at pick No. 51, and it noticed. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Braelon Allen at Round 3, Pick 19 is a clear overpay, with better names still on the board. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
A market-rate linebacker, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Marist Liufau. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
Michael Hall Jr. at pick 88 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Value with a capital V on Cam Hart in the 119th overall pick, a genuine coup. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
They paid up for Jonah Monheim at the Round 4 slot when waiting would have done the job. The roster fit checks out.
They went early on Miles Frazier in the 197th pick, and the value did not follow. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Nice patience on Ricky Pearsall, who had no business lasting to No. 217. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
This one needs a full-page explanation: Sam Hartman in pick 219, miles early. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Value said wait; Drake Nugent in Round 7, Pick 20 says they were not listening. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
