D-
Green Bay Packers
The Packers got the worse of every deal, and it shows in the D-.
by HAMFAM ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 15 picks
· 1 steals
· 7 reaches
The Packers looked at the value chart, folded it up, and took Omar Brown at the Round 7 slot regardless, 72 picks early. Put together, it is a D-.
The trades bled value they could not afford to lose. However the rest shakes out, Rosengarten at that price is a win they earned.
On the needs board they went 8 of 8, with edge rusher the one that mattered most.
It is a steep hill from here, and the grade knows it.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 25 they get a No. 1 receiver at fair value. A real need, handled.
Junior Colson at the Round 2 slot is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
No edge and no loss on Adisa Isaac in Round 2, Pick 26; it is a wash and a sensible one. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
A market-rate safety, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Jaden Hicks. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
A reach for Mekhi Wingo in the 91st pick; a little patience would have been rewarded. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Nice patience on Roger Rosengarten, who had no business lasting to slot 105. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
The board screamed and they did not listen, reaching into the next round for Beaux Limmer. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Isaac Guerendo at pick 126 jumps the queue by a touch more than is comfortable. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
A big swing on Jordan Travis at pick No. 151, well ahead of any board in the building. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
They left a pile of value on the table to take Khristian Boyd this early at the 163rd pick. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Tip Reiman in the Round 5 slot is fair value, right on his grade. The roster fit checks out.
Edefuan Ulofoshio in Round 6, Pick 27 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. Stacking talent where they were already deep.
Deantre Prince at the 219th overall pick is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Omar Brown in No. 245 is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.
Carson Steele in pick 255 is fine work, a shade of surplus and no downside. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.