With the series covering Green Bay’s first-round selections since 2000 concluding, I am sticking with the draft theme, but moving to a different side of it. This week, I am going to talk about the best late-round draft selections made by Green Bay in the team’s history. Any selections made from round five and later…
In the fourth and final part of this series, I will focus on all first-round selections made by Green Bay in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Each week I have focused on a grouping of years to try and break down how the Packers fared and what I would have done (either differently or the same).…
Going into the third part of this series, I will be looking at the first-round selections made by Green Bay in years 2011-2015. Last week, I looked at the selections made from 2006-2010, and the week prior I went through selections from 2000 to 2005. 2011- Derek Sherrod, T In one of the better first…
Last week, I started a small series of articles looking into the draft history of the Packers since 2000 for their first-round selections. I covered 2000-2005 last week, and this week’s piece will cover the next five seasons, 2006-2010. 2006- A.J. Hawk, LB In a year that was dominated by players in the 2006…
Since the year 2000, the Green Bay Packers have had 18 first round selections, including two years (2008 and 2017) that had no selections, and 2009, where the team made two first-round selections. The selections were mainly defensive for Green Bay, as 13 were on the defensive side of the ball. Probably the most famous…
Round 5. Pick 172. Punter J.K. Scott, Alabama goes to the Green Bay Packers. With this selection, on came the scrutiny of the team using a valuable draft selection on a specialist, especially with the track record that the team has in selecting punters (see B.J. Sander, 2004). With the loss of cheesehead icon Jeff…
Ever since the Packers selected Kenny Clark in the first round of the 2016, the spotlight has been on him to justify his selection. Draft picks at the end of the first round, like Clark at 27, are seen as ‘fit’ selections, ones that help playoff teams remain in contention but do not necessarily add…
