B
Green Bay Packers
The Packers let Smith fall and pounced. Final grade: B.
by buffalof ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 9 picks
· 7 steals
· 1 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Tykee Smith, pick No. 219, roughly 59 picks past where he belonged. It nets out to a B, which feels about right.
The edge rusher hole is the one line item this class does not answer. Every board in the league had Orhorhoro lower, and that gap is the story.
Cornerback was the priority and it is no longer a question, which is most of the job. They reloaded the coverage unit in bulk.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 25th overall pick they get a potential shutdown corner. Exactly the need they had to hit.
They robbed the room for Kool-Aid McKinstry here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
A reach on Ruke Orhorhoro in Round 2, Pick 26; the board had better options right there. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Kingsley Suamataia in the 88th pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
You do not let a running back like Jaylen Wright reach the Round 3 slot and blink. They did not. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
A quiet steal in No. 126: Spencer Rattler for less than the market said. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
They barely believed it either: Javon Foster still on the board at slot 169. The roster fit checks out.
They let Tanor Bortolini come to them and pounced at pick No. 202. A need, and now a little less of one.
Somehow Tykee Smith was still sitting there in the 219th overall pick, and they pounced on premier safety value. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.