B-
Green Bay Packers
A respectable, level-headed haul for the Packers: B-.
by PackersFanForever ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 3 steals
· 3 reaches
The Packers spent real capital to be 102 picks early on Dallas Gant, and the board is going to hold them to it.
The Green pick alone nudges the whole weekend up a notch. It is not that Green is a bad player; it is that the Packers had louder needs to answer first. For all the activity, edge rusher went untouched, which is hard to explain.
A tidy weekend of work that should hold up just fine.
Pick-by-Pick
In Round 1, Pick 25 they get protection for the quarterback. A real need, handled.
They let Cooper DeJean come to them and pounced at pick No. 41. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
They paid sticker price for Payton Wilson in pick 58, and that is fine. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
They did well to land Jaden Hicks in the 88th pick, just ahead of his grade. A minor need, but a need all the same.
MarShawn Lloyd in the Round 3 slot is fair value, right on his grade. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
The needs board was loud and they turned it down, spending the 126th overall pick on Renardo Green with edge rusher, quarterback and other spots unsolved.
No drama and no debate, Malik Mustapha went about where he belonged in Round 5, Pick 33. Nice player, but the depth chart did not need him here.
A reach for Nathaniel Watson in pick 202; a little patience would have been rewarded. Insurance at a position that did not really ask for it.
A real head-scratcher, Dallas Gant in the Round 6 slot is miles ahead of his ranking. Pure best-available; the position was not exactly begging.
The board had cheaper options than Tyler Owens at pick No. 245, and it noticed. Stacking talent where they were already deep.
A quiet steal in No. 255: Bub Means for less than the market said. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
