Tag: 2025 NFL Draft

Sure, it’s probably a bit early to be looking ahead to the Green Bay Packers’ 2025 draft, but with the college football season just about two months away, it’s not too early to start compiling a list of names to watch this upcoming season.

Pro Football Focus recently went through all 11 positions and picked the top 10 draft prospects from each. Here is who they chose at offensive tackle. For more details on each player, click here.

Will Campbell, LSU
Kelvin Banks Jr., Texas
Jonah Savaiinaea, Arizona
Emery Jones, LSU
Ajani Cornelius, Oregon
Blake Miller, Clemson
Wyatt Milum, West Virginia
Josh Conerly Jr., Oregon
Earnest Greene III, Georgia
Riley Mahlman, Wisconsin

As I mentioned when previewing the interior offensive line, given that the Packers have drafted multiple offensive linemen in four of their last five drafts, there is always the possibility that GM Brian Gutekunst is going to add to this position group, one that he values very highly.

The degree to which the Packers may or may not address the tackle position next offseason will likely be dictated by the answer to these two questions: does Rasheed Walker find that consistency and solidify himself as the Packers left tackle? Or do the Packers view Jordan Morgan as more of a tackle or a guard?

Zach Tom is going to be a part of this Packers offensive line for the foreseeable future, and until we see otherwise, I’m going to assume he’s the right tackle. So if that’s the case, and Walker is the answer on the left side, then tackle probably isn’t much of a need for the Packers.

Now, an added wrinkle in this scenario is that both Tom and Walker will be playing out the final year of their rookie deals in 2025, which means potentially having to pay both players with second contracts at the same time, and that is a factor that could influence next year’s draft.

However, even with that possibly being the case, the Packers always seem to find ways to pay their good, young players, and their cap situation will only continue to improve, along with the salary cap continuing to increase each year.

To the second question, if the Packers view Morgan as a long-term tackle in the NFL, that’s another reason that they won’t need to invest heavily into the tackle position in next year’s draft.

As I said, you can never truly rule out the Packers adding a tackle in the draft at some point because of how they value and view the position. But where we sit right now, with Tom on the right side, Walker playing well at the end of last season, and the team just spending a first-round pick on Morgan, the need to at least spend an early-round pick on the position seems relatively low.

The one scenario that could make the tackle position a bigger need than what it is perceived to be right now would be if Morgan, for example, solidifies himself as the team’s right guard this season, along with Walker not taking that step forward in his second season as a starter, still battling the ups and downs that he dealt with for stretches in 2023.

As far as depth, incoming rookie Travis Glover will be in his second season, while perhaps Caleb Jones or Luke Tenuta is still hanging around. While immediate impact help at the position may not be a pressing need, depth very much could be, depending on the status of Jones and Tenuta, making tackle a priority in the mid to latter portions of the draft.

Although the 2025 NFL draft is still about 10 months away, the college football season is just on the horizon, with Week 1 set for the weekend of August 24th. This means that it’s not too soon to begin crafting your watch lists of draft-eligible prospects for the Green Bay Packers.

Pro Football Focus has recently done some of the heavy lifting, going through all 11 positions and picking the top 10 draft prospects from each. Here is who they chose along the interior offensive line. For more details on each player, click here.

Tyler Booker, Alabama
Tate Ratledge, Georgia
Donovan Jackson, Ohio State
Clay Webb, Jacksonville State
Jaeden Roberts, Alabama
Jonah Monheim, USC
Parker Brailsford, Alabama
Luke Kandra, Cincinnati
Dylan Fairchild, Georgia
Jake Slaughter, Florida

In four of the Packers’ last five drafts, GM Brian Gutekunst has selected multiple offensive linemen, including three occasions where he drafted three in one class.

In itself, that organizational philosophy around continually adding competition to the trenches makes it more likely than not that the Packers will add to their interior offensive line room in the 2025 draft–to what degree may depend on how this season unfolds, with perhaps a big wildcard in all of this being whether the team views Jordan Morgan as a tackle or a guard.

But what we know right now is that Josh Myers and Royce Newman are both free agents next offseason, with Newman being a potential cut candidate this summer before the season even begins. If both are playing elsewhere in 2025, which is certainly possible, then from both a numbers and competition perspective, additional depth will be needed.

Incoming rookie Jacob Monk could be a replacement for Myers at center. The Packers also added Travis Glover in this year’s draft, who does have some guard experience in college, and they also think highly of undrafted rookie Donovan Jennings, who was guaranteed $110,000 at signing, according to Spotrac.

However, having said that, it’s too early to say with any certainty what roles Glover or Jennings could have, especailly a year from now, and the return of either may not carry a ton of weight when it comes to determining how the Packers address this position in the draft.

On top of all that, Sean Rhyan will be in the final year of his rookie deal at that point. He will be competing for a much larger role this summer, but whether that is parlayed into a second contract remains to be seen, and in an effort to plan ahead for the 2026 offseason, this is another reason why the Packers could invest into the interior offensive line next April.

Addressing the interior offensive line doesn’t necessarily mean just drafting a guard or center, as we’ve seen the Packers have a lot of success over the years selecting tackles that they then move inside.

The Packers currently have seven official picks in next year’s draft, one in each round, and are projected to receive a compensatory pick for losing Yosh Nijman in free agency, which would give them eight selections in total.