B
Green Bay Packers
The Packers did the meat-and-potatoes work well: B.
by Pack a Day 1 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 4 steals
· 2 reaches
Nobody else had Matthew Jones anywhere near pick No. 203. The Packers did, by 30 spots, and that gap is the whole story.
It is not that Gray is a bad player; it is that the Packers had louder needs to answer first. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through quarterback.
Getting Tampa where they did is the sort of value that quietly makes a class.
All told, a draft that does its job without fuss, and there is real value in that.
Pick-by-Pick
In Round 1, Pick 25 they get a sticky cover corner at a price that makes it sweeter. Exactly the need they had to hit.
A market-rate edge rusher, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Chop Robinson. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and T.J. Tampa at No. 57 is the proof. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Junior Colson at pick 88. A minor need, but a need all the same.
They took Audric Estime at par in pick No. 92, which is nothing to complain about. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Malik Mustapha at the 125th pick jumps the queue by a touch more than is comfortable. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
The eyebrow-raiser of the weekend. They went linebacker with Cedric Gray while clear needs at quarterback, wide receiver and other spots sat open.
Matthew Jones at the 203rd overall pick is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. It fills a real need, too.
Nice patience on Jase McClellan, who had no business lasting to slot 217. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Trevor Keegan at pick 219 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Tatum Bethune in the 246th pick is fair value, right on his grade. They added to a strength when a need was still open elsewhere.