B
Green Bay Packers
Good, not great, for the Packers: B.
by Pack a Day 1 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 17 picks
· 3 steals
· 5 reaches
The Packers bet big and early on Dallas Gant, 61 picks ahead of the board. Bold does not always mean right. Good, not great, and the B says as much.
The Barrett pick alone nudges the whole weekend up a notch. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through edge rusher.
All told, a solid class that does its job everywhere but edge rusher.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 28th overall pick they get a ballhawk on the outside at a price that makes it sweeter. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Edgerrin Cooper in pick 41 is fair value, right on his grade. It adds depth where they could use a little.
The board fumbled Jordan Morgan all the way to pick No. 58, and they scooped it up. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
No edge and no loss on Trey Benson in the 93rd pick; it is a wash and a sensible one. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
By-the-book stuff, Brenden Rice at the Round 3 slot squarely in line with his ranking. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
A premium they did not need to pay, Renardo Green a notch or two before his time. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
A straight-up fair deal on Ben Sinnott at pick 127, value and slot in agreement. The roster fit checks out.
A tidy little value on Kitan Oladapo in pick No. 159, a step better than break-even. It is more luxury than necessity; they were already set here.
A market-rate cornerback, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Kamal Hadden. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
A clean, defensible pick in Round 5, Pick 28 with a little surplus value in Trevor Keegan. It fills a real need, too.
Jaheim Bell at the 168th pick is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
Isaac Guerendo at No. 171 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
They paid a round early for Tanor Bortolini in slot 204, more than the board wanted. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Kenny Logan Jr. at the Round 6 slot is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. A want more than a need, though you can never have too many.
They left a pile of value on the table to take Dallas Gant this early at pick No. 243. They added to a strength when a need was still open elsewhere.
A linebacker of that caliber at pick 248 is the definition of value, full stop. Insurance at a position that did not really ask for it.
A wild overpay on Trey Taylor in No. 251, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. Stacking talent where they were already deep.