As the draft approaches ever so slowly, it’s hard to think of topics to write about without being repeptivie.  Most guys I know or read that do mocks have published their 3rd or 4th version despite no more meaningful football being played by the prospects in question.  Individual prospect profiling is a very helpful and very time consuming activity, but not something that I’m interested nor have the time to do.  Pushing the draft back into May is part of what every believes to be the league’s attempt to keep itself in the sports news cycle 12 months out of the year.  They are succeeding but they are making things repetitive.

What I’m going to do here is something I don’t plan on doing again.  Admittedly it’s a play off of the off season needs piece you can read here and the post-free agency audit that I provided here, but it is different.  I’m going to rank the need level of every single non-special team position on the roster leading up to May’s draft:

1. Safety- It would be hard for me to explain myself if I didn’t pick safety first, wouldn’t it?  The Packers have  actually taken a step backwards from last season if that is even possible.  Most, including myself, would argue that letting starting safety MD Jennings walk is actually addition by subtraction but it is a subtraction nonetheless.  So far the team has done nothing to address it’s weakest position of a year ago, and considering that the only move made was allowing Jennings to sign with Chicago, this remains the top area of need heading into the draft.  Read more... (1791 words, estimated 7:10 mins reading time)