B
Green Bay Packers
Larceny in pick No. 248 lands the Packers a B, Bertrand and all.
by Pack a Day 3 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 13 picks
· 9 steals
· 3 reaches
Thirty-one other rooms let JD Bertrand slide, and the Packers were the ones holding the card at No. 248. Highway robbery. A sturdy weekend that grades out a B.
They are betting Jones proves the room right and everyone else wrong. A whole weekend of picks and edge rusher is somehow still a want.
A modest surplus at the table, banked quietly.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In Round 1, Pick 25 they get a No. 1 receiver at a price that makes it sweeter.
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Tyler Nubin at the 41st overall pick is the proof. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
A straight-up fair deal on Edgerrin Cooper at No. 59, value and slot in agreement. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
Kingsley Suamataia in slot 88 is a gift, value that borders on unfair. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
They paid a round early for Khyree Jackson in the 91st pick, more than the board wanted. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
You do not let a running back like Bucky Irving reach the Round 4 slot and blink. They did not. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Blake Fisher in pick 135 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Kamal Hadden at pick No. 164 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
They reached a country mile for Matthew Jones at No. 203, and the board is aghast. It fills a real need, too.
Christian Jones at the 217th overall pick is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Rasheen Ali in pick No. 219 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
This one needs a full-page explanation: Trey Wedig in the 246th pick, miles early. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
A linebacker of that caliber at Round 7, Pick 28 is the definition of value, full stop. Pure best-available; the position was not exactly begging.
