F
Green Bay Packers
The Hatten reach set the tone, and the Packers never recovered: F.
by Doogie22 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 12 picks
· 0 steals
· 9 reaches
The Packers spent real capital to be 82 picks early on Hayden Hatten, and the board is going to hold them to it.
The trades bled value they could not afford to lose. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped edge rusher, which is a strange place to end up. The roster is better shaped than it was, with cornerback chief among the fixes.
There is no soft landing here; this class has to massively overperform just to matter.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick No. 16 they get a press-man option on the boundary. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
This one needs a full-page explanation: T'Vondre Sweat in No. 25, miles early. It fills a real need, too.
Jackson Powers-Johnson in the 41st pick is early enough to raise a brow, if not a full objection. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
A clean, defensible pick in Round 2, Pick 25 with a little surplus value in Kingsley Suamataia. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
Cole Bishop at the Round 3 slot is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
A wild overpay on Dillon Johnson in the 91st overall pick, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
They jumped the gun on Cam Hart, taking him earlier than his grade liked. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
No drama and no debate, Dylan Laube went about where he belonged in Round 4, Pick 35. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
They talked themselves into Cal Haladay at pick No. 203, and the board did not agree. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Isaac Rex in the Round 6 slot is a bet on their own eyes over everyone else's grade. A need, and now a little less of one.
A big swing on Hayden Hatten at the 219th pick, well ahead of any board in the building. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
The board screamed and they did not listen, reaching into the next round for Akeem Dent. Stacking talent where they were already deep.
