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Green Bay Packers
The Packers cashed the board's mistake on Rosengarten: B-.
by jj3325 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 14 picks
· 2 steals
· 6 reaches
This is the pick they will still be bragging about in July: Roger Rosengarten, the No. 175 name on the board, stolen at slot 217.
They will need Gentry to outplay his draft slot in a hurry to justify it. With quarterback, wide receiver and other spots unsolved, spending premium capital on linebacker is the choice that costs them. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through quarterback.
Add it up and it is a good, unfussy class.
Pick-by-Pick
In No. 25 they get a ballhawk on the outside at fair value. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
A market-rate linebacker, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Edgerrin Cooper. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
They zigged when the board said zag, taking Junior Colson at linebacker with quarterback, wide receiver and other spots open.
Mike Sainristil at the Round 3 slot is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
McKinnley Jackson in pick No. 91 is fine work, a shade of surplus and no downside. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
No drama and no debate, Tykee Smith went about where he belonged in the 94th overall pick. A minor need, but a need all the same.
Ray Davis at slot 98 jumps the queue by a touch more than is comfortable. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
You do not let an offensive lineman like Blake Fisher reach the 125th pick and blink. They did not. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
A curious use of No. 131. Quarterback, wide receiver and other spots needed the pick; a safety in Malik Mustapha did not.
A big swing on Justin Rogers at the Round 4 slot, well ahead of any board in the building. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
Jawhar Jordan in slot 203 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Somehow Roger Rosengarten was still sitting there in pick 217, and they pounced on premier offensive lineman value. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
They left a pile of value on the table to take Eric Gentry this early at Round 6, Pick 44. Stacking talent where they were already deep.
The board had cheaper options than Xavier Thomas at pick No. 246, and it noticed. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
