The Green Bay Packers hold the 22nd overall pick and 29th overall pick in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft. As is the case most years, the Packers are picking late in the round on Thursday night, even after acquiring an additional first-round pick by trading Davante Adams to the Raiders. Predicting which player Brian Gutekunst will pick remains a difficult exercise, especially if the team is interested in trading up or down.
His past four first-round picks provide a blueprint of sorts: Gutekunst likes young prospects with elite athleticism at premium positions.
By eliminating the most likely top 10 or so picks and digging deep into the team’s draft preferences, needs and player fits, a prospect list for the Packers in the first round can form.
Eliminated: Aidan Hutchinson, Kayvon Thibodeaux, Sauce Gardner, Derek Stingley Jr., Travon Walker, Ickey Ekwonu, Garrett Wilson, Kyle Hamilton, Evan Neal, Charles Cross and Jermaine Johnson. We also won’t include cornerbacks (Packers are three-deep, with two first-round picks) or quarterbacks.
Here’s a 32-player list of the most likely options for the Packers in the first round of the 2022 draft, sorted by position.