B
Green Bay Packers
Keegan should have been long gone. The Packers pounced, and earned a B.
by PackersFanForever ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 14 picks
· 5 steals
· 4 reaches
The rest of the league will want that one back. Trevor Keegan tumbling to the Packers in Round 6, Pick 40 is a gift they did not have to think twice about.
Gant has a lot of ground to make up just to look fairly priced. The dealing alone would carry a lesser class. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through edge rusher.
It is not that Trotter Jr. is a bad player; it is that the Packers had louder needs to answer first.
In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the edge rusher spot they never got to.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 27th pick they get protection for the quarterback. A clean fit for the roster.
Junior Colson at Round 2, Pick 9 is a conviction pick that outran the value. A minor itch, scratched.
Cooper Beebe at No. 58 is money in the bank, a offensive lineman taken below his worth. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
A market-rate cornerback, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Khyree Jackson. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
The eyebrow-raiser of the weekend. They went linebacker with Jeremiah Trotter Jr. while clear needs at edge rusher, quarterback and other spots sat open.
Good price on Dominick Puni in pick 94, a hair ahead of his grade with no real quibbles. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
They paid sticker price for Isaac Guerendo in pick No. 124, and that is fine. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
This one needs a full-page explanation: Tykee Smith in slot 126, miles early. A minor need, but a need all the same.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Logan Lee well ahead of where he belonged. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
Dwight McGlothern at the 202nd pick is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Circle this one: Trevor Keegan at Round 6, Pick 40 is a fall that decides a draft. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
They will replay Kamal Hadden at the Round 6 slot for years; that is how good the value is. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
No edge and no loss on Bub Means in the 245th overall pick; it is a wash and a sensible one. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
A wild overpay on Dallas Gant in No. 255, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. Depth on depth, at a spot that was hardly crying out.