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If the board shakes out similarly on draft night, it’ll be a good start for the Packers.
Here at SB Nation, we gather our communities together for a very special mock draft every offseason where each site runner makes their first-round draft pick for their respective team. Trades are part of the process. For the Green Bay Packers, though, I decided to stay put at the 25th overall pick as an exercise to see who could be available on the board if general manager Brian Gutekunst chose to stick it out.
Below were the results by the time I was on the clock:
If bullets were live, I think I would have tried to start trading up beginning with pick No. 18. Byron Murphy is easily the best three-technique defensive tackle in the draft, and he played more than his fair share of nose tackle reps with the Texas Longhorns last season. On the offensive line, it would have been impossible to imagine tackle Olu Fashanu dropping to the 20th overall pick just a few months ago — as he was considered the top offensive line prospect not too long ago. Then you have defensive backs Quinyon Mitchell of Toledo, one of the better pure cornerback prospects in recent memory in my opinion, and Cooper DeJean of Iowa, who can play either cornerback or safety.
But I stuck to my guns and decided to wait for the 25th pick to roll around. With all of those players gone, here was my line of thinking:
This pick basically came down to Duke’s Graham Barton and Georgia Amarius Mims to me. I think that if everything else is equal, the team would turn in a pick for an offensive tackle — especially with how the team is constructed — over a cornerback. That’s why I...
