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Green Bay Packers
The Packers cashed the board's mistake on Greenfield: B.
by kooners ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 9 steals
· 0 reaches
The board owed the Packers one, and it paid up: Garret Greenfield, the No. 216 name on the board, sitting there at Round 7, Pick 35 like a gift left on the doorstep.
The edge rusher hole is the one line item this class does not answer. They went 2 of 8 on their needs, which is most of what a draft is for. Nearly every premium pick went to that side of the ball.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 25th pick they get a potential shutdown corner. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
They let Graham Barton come to them and pounced at Round 2, Pick 9. The roster fit checks out.
The board had Edgerrin Cooper higher than pick 58, and the linebacker fell to them anyway. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
They will replay Patrick Paul at the Round 3 slot for years; that is how good the value is. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Max Melton slid further than he should have, and slot 91 is lovely value for the cornerback. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
A cornerback of that caliber at pick No. 126 is the definition of value, full stop. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Tykee Smith at No. 169 is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Somehow Kamal Hadden was still sitting there in the 202nd overall pick, and they pounced on premier cornerback value. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Fair-plus on Nathaniel Watson, a quiet win that adds up over a draft. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.
Value with a capital V on Trevin Wallace in Round 7, Pick 25, a genuine coup. A luxury on a unit that was already in good shape.
Garret Greenfield at slot 255 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.