B+
Green Bay Packers
The Packers cashed the board's mistake on DeJean: B+.
by trevorr77 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 7 picks
· 2 steals
· 0 reaches
Whoever sat across the table from the Packers should ask for a receipt. They cleaned the room out, prying loose far more value than they gave up, and it was the quiet MVP of their weekend. It nets out to a B+, which feels about right.
If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through edge rusher. The DeJean pick is the one they will point to when this weekend is judged. The imported veterans give this class a floor the draft picks could not on their own.
Stockpiling next year's capital is patient, if unglamorous, asset work.
In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the edge rusher spot they never got to.
Pick-by-Pick
In slot 16 they get a matchup problem out wide. A clean fit for the roster.
Calen Bullock at the 41st overall pick is right where the board had him, plain and simple. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
They took Patrick Paul at par in the 47th pick, which is nothing to complain about. It fills a real need, too.
Circle this one: Cooper DeJean at the Round 3 slot is a fall that decides a draft. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
By-the-book stuff, McKinnley Jackson at Round 3, Pick 18 squarely in line with his ranking. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
A clean, defensible pick in pick 109 with a little surplus value in Graham Barton. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Khyree Jackson at No. 135 is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.