B-
Green Bay Packers
The Packers cashed the board's mistake on Gould: B-.
by FirewoodDave23 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 14 picks
· 9 steals
· 1 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Anthony Gould, the 219th pick, roughly 77 picks past where he belonged.
Reaching for Slovis left real value on the table behind him. It is not that Hicks is a bad player; it is that the Packers had louder needs to answer first.
Leaving running back unaddressed is the roster risk they will have to answer for in the fall.
Not a headline-grabber, but a perfectly good weekend's work.
Pick-by-Pick
A straight-up fair deal on Tyler Nubin at the 41st overall pick, value and slot in agreement. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
They let Chris Braswell come to them and pounced at the 58th pick. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
A reasonable price with a little left over, Patrick Paul in the Round 3 slot. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Max Melton slipping to slot 91 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
The eyebrow-raiser of the weekend. They went safety with Jaden Hicks while clear needs at running back and tight end sat open.
James Williams in pick 125 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. A minor need, but a need all the same.
They took Johnny Wilson at par in Round 4, Pick 26, which is nothing to complain about. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Steal is underselling it; Caelen Carson at pick No. 136 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Trevor Keegan in the 169th pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
They robbed the room for Tyrone Tracy Jr. here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
A quiet steal in pick No. 207: Justin Rogers for less than the market said. A need, and now a little less of one.
Circle this one: Anthony Gould at No. 219 is a fall that decides a draft. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Steele Chambers in pick 245 is a gift, value that borders on unfair. They added to a strength when a need was still open elsewhere.
This one needs a full-page explanation: Kedon Slovis in the 255th overall pick, miles early. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
