B
Green Bay Packers
The Packers did the meat-and-potatoes work well: B.
by leapinLambeaus ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 12 picks
· 4 steals
· 3 reaches
They will call it conviction in the building and a reach everywhere else: Frank Gore Jr., 35 picks early at slot 219. Call it a sensible B, earned the boring way.
Landing Odunze that late papers over a lot of smaller sins. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through edge rusher. A modest surplus at the table, banked quietly.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 11 they get a blindside protector at fair value.
They barely believed it either: Rome Odunze still on the board at pick No. 39. A need, and now a little less of one.
They took T.J. Tampa at par in the 44th overall pick, which is nothing to complain about. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Byron Murphy II at No. 75 is money in the bank, a interior defensive lineman taken below his worth. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
TreVeyon Henderson at the Round 3 slot is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
By-the-book stuff, Audric Estime at slot 111 squarely in line with his ranking. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Tate Ratledge in slot 112 is fair value, right on his grade. The roster fit checks out.
Nice patience on Cedric Gray, who had no business lasting to pick No. 135. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
Tre Harris at the 189th pick is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. It fills a real need, too.
They reached a country mile for Jordan Jefferson at pick 217, and the board is aghast. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Frank Gore Jr. in the 219th overall pick is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Sam Hartman well ahead of where he belonged. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
