B
Green Bay Packers
The Packers let Jones fall and pounced. Final grade: B.
by JDHAYES ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 14 picks
· 2 steals
· 5 reaches
Thirty-one other rooms let Jarrian Jones slide, and the Packers were the ones holding the card at the 202nd overall pick. Highway robbery.
Eichenberg has a lot of ground to make up just to look fairly priced. That quarterback hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall.
A workmanlike haul that should hold up just fine.
Pick-by-Pick
Cooper DeJean in Round 1, Pick 25 is fair value, right on his grade. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
A market-rate offensive lineman, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Kingsley Suamataia. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
The board had cheaper options than Kiran Amegadjie at No. 58, and it noticed. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
This one needs a full-page explanation: Tommy Eichenberg in pick 85, miles early. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
Kalen King in the 88th overall pick is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
They took Dominick Puni at par in the Round 3 slot, which is nothing to complain about. A need, and now a little less of one.
Sataoa Laumea in slot 126 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
No drama and no debate, Sione Vaki went about where he belonged in pick No. 156. A minor need, but a need all the same.
By-the-book stuff, Braiden McGregor at the 169th overall pick squarely in line with his ranking. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Jarrian Jones in Round 6, Pick 27 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Garret Greenfield at the 206th pick is a clear overpay, with better names still on the board. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Zion Tupuola-Fetui in slot 219 lands just on the right side of the ledger. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Eyabi Okie-Anoma in No. 245 is a bet on their own eyes over everyone else's grade. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Donovan Jennings slipping to pick 255 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. The roster fit checks out.
