Touchdown Wire’s pre-combine mock draft: Chase Young, Jerry Jeudy are pivot points

Everybody does mock drafts, most everybody does more than one, and every mock draft is done for different reasons. To get clicks? Well, duh. That would be reason No. 1, dear reader. Let’s not be arch about this. That aside, what we’re trying to do …

30. Green Bay Packers (13-3): Patrick Queen, LB, LSU

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Packers defensive coordinator Mike Pettine loves to roll out different dime packages, and that requires his linebackers to be full-field rovers who can read and react with impunity, especially against the run. To put it kindly, Green Bay’s linebacker corps did not present this ideal scenario in 2019. So as much as the Pack needs to come back with more receiving targets for Aaron Rodgers, an every-down linebacker might be the bigger need. Queen fits the modern linebacker paradigm at 6-foot-1 and 227 pounds, but he’s not just a safety with a linebacker’s positional designation — he can zoom through gaps to help stop the run, and he’s an impressively physical player all over the field. More importantly, Pettine won’t have to wonder what his only linebacker on the field is trying to accomplish anymore.

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