B
Green Bay Packers
A respectable, level-headed haul for the Packers: B.
by JimWilliams1331 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 12 picks
· 3 steals
· 3 reaches
The Packers spent real capital to be 40 picks early on Marist Liufau, and the board is going to hold them to it. Call it a sensible B, earned the boring way.
Whatever else happened, they won the night they took Keegan. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped tight end, which is a strange place to end up. Small wins on the phones, but wins all the same.
In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.
Pick-by-Pick
In the Round 1 slot they get a potential shutdown corner at fair value. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Darius Robinson at the 41st overall pick is right where the board had him, plain and simple. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
A tidy bit of business in Round 2, Pick 26, where Kamari Lassiter graded well above the range. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
No drama and no debate, Bucky Irving went about where he belonged in pick 88. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Khyree Jackson in pick No. 94 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
A wild overpay on Marist Liufau in No. 126, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
They robbed the room for Trevor Keegan here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
They talked themselves into Drake Nugent at pick 176, and the board did not agree. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
A quiet steal in the 202nd pick: Cornelius Johnson for less than the market said. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
By-the-book stuff, Frank Gore Jr. at the 219th overall pick squarely in line with his ranking. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Josh Proctor in No. 245 is fair value, right on his grade. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Taulia Tagovailoa well ahead of where he belonged. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
