B
Green Bay Packers
A masterclass at the trade table lands the Packers a B.
by jj3325 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 12 picks
· 4 steals
· 4 reaches
Some picks age like wine; Dwight McGlothern at pick 219 will need to, sitting 38 spots clear of his grade. Solid and sensible more than spectacular: a B.
Every deal seemed to tilt their way, which is not luck. Landing Rice that late papers over a lot of smaller sins. The quarterback spot stays a question, and it was the one they most needed an answer at.
In sum, a sensible class that nudges the roster the right way.
Pick-by-Pick
In slot 30 they get a ballhawk on the back end. More want than need.
A reach on Jackson Powers-Johnson in the Round 2 slot; the board had better options right there. The roster fit checks out.
Edgerrin Cooper at the 57th overall pick is right where the board had him, plain and simple. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Chris Braswell at pick No. 73 is the proof. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Brenden Rice in No. 88. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
They did well to land McKinnley Jackson in pick 91, just ahead of his grade. A need, and now a little less of one.
A reach for Will Shipley in the 125th overall pick; a little patience would have been rewarded. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
A quiet steal in Round 4, Pick 35: Jarrian Jones for less than the market said. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Jawhar Jordan in No. 203 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Omar Speights at the Round 6 slot is money in the bank, a linebacker taken below his worth. They added to a strength when a need was still open elsewhere.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Dwight McGlothern well ahead of where he belonged. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Xavier Thomas at slot 246 jumps the queue by a touch more than is comfortable. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
