NFC North watch: Packers get slammed for their curious draft choices

The Green Bay Packers draft class of 2020 is getting a terrible reception, both from national analysts and Packers fans

If there’s one thing all Lions fans can rally behind, it’s enjoying the misery of Green Bay Packers fans. And right now the Cheesehead nation is reeling in almost disconsolate disappointment in what the Packers did in the 2020 NFL Draft.

The Packers were desperately thin at wide receiver, offensive tackle, linebacker and cornerback entering the draft. After seven rounds of picks, nothing really changed. They used their first-round pick on Utah State project QB Jordan Love. Traded up for him, no less. With Aaron Rodgers remaining very much one of the best QBs in the game, Green Bay wasted a first-rounder on a player who shouldn’t see the field for three years. That doesn’t help them get better, and it certainly didn’t make Rodgers happy.

Second-round RB A.J. Dillon was generally projected on Day 3 and is a one-dimensional (albeit very good at that dimension) power runner. The Packers were already pleasantly deep at RB. Three interior linemen followed after TE/FB Josiah Deguara and project LB Kamal Martin, both of whom were drafted at least one round higher than expected. EDGE and CB were finally addressed on Day 3 by players most Packers fans had never heard of.

Nearly every national media outlet grading drafts hates what the Packers did. A sampling,

Draft Wire – D
USA TODAY – D
PFF – D
SB Nation – D
Washington Post – D
Sporting News – 32nd of 32
CBS – 32nd of 32

Apparently head coach Matt LaFleur’s own son couldn’t even stand the choices,

If you want to witness the human version of a balloon losing air and then exploding, Packers fans came through.

The Packers have been so consistently good for so long that it’s hard to feel too bad for them. Maybe, just maybe, the times are changing…

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