B
Green Bay Packers
The Packers won the weekend at the trade table. Grade: B.
by PackersFanForever ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 12 picks
· 4 steals
· 3 reaches
They will call it conviction in the building and a reach everywhere else: Dallas Gant, 65 picks early at the Round 7 slot.
Getting McGlothern where they did is the sort of value that quietly makes a class. They robbed the room blind at the table, and it lifts the grade on its own.
If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through tight end.
Add it up and it is a good, unfussy class.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 25 they get a blindside protector. A real need, handled.
A market-rate linebacker, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Edgerrin Cooper. A minor need, but a need all the same.
Nice patience on Javon Bullard, who had no business lasting to the 58th pick. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Khyree Jackson in slot 88 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Dominick Puni at No. 91 is a sensible buy, a touch better than market for the offensive lineman. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Braelon Allen in pick No. 97 is the kind of reach that only looks good if he outplays it. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
They talked themselves into Justin Eboigbe at Round 4, Pick 26, and the board did not agree. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Tykee Smith slid further than he should have, and pick No. 169 is lovely value for the safety. Depth on depth, at a spot that was hardly crying out.
Taking Dwight McGlothern in the 202nd overall pick is close to grand larceny; a cornerback that good had no business lasting this long. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Joe Milton III at the Round 6 slot is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
No drama and no debate, Bub Means went about where he belonged in slot 245. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Dallas Gant well ahead of where he belonged. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.
