B-
Green Bay Packers
A solid, sensible weekend for the Packers: B-.
by JDHAYES ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 5 steals
· 2 reaches
Somewhere a scout is still blinking. The Packers spent the 91st overall pick on Tommy Eichenberg, a name the board had a full 54 spots lower.
That Wiley pick is the receipt they will wave around later. The edge rusher hole is the one line item this class does not answer.
Cornerback was the priority and it is no longer a question, which is most of the job. Value over need was the throughline, for better and worse.
Add it up and it is a good, unfussy class.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 25th pick they get an island corner. Exactly the need they had to hit.
No edge and no loss on Cooper Beebe in slot 41; it is a wash and a sensible one. It fills a real need, too.
They took Kingsley Suamataia at par in Round 2, Pick 26, which is nothing to complain about. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Kalen King at pick No. 88 is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Tommy Eichenberg in the 91st overall pick is a bet on their own eyes over everyone else's grade. It adds depth where they could use a little.
They read the board right and Blake Fisher was the payoff at the Round 4 slot. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Walter Rouse in slot 169 is fine work, a shade of surplus and no downside. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Daijun Edwards is a better player than pick No. 202 suggests; smart patience, rewarded. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Somehow Curtis Jacobs was still sitting there in pick 219, and they pounced on premier linebacker value. Pure best-available; the position was not exactly begging.
Jared Wiley in the 245th pick is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Josh Proctor at Round 7, Pick 35 is the proof. A minor itch, scratched.
