Green Bay takes Iowa State receiver Jayden Higgins in the 2nd round of our 5.0 mock draft

A consensus is starting to build. For the second time in a row, fans here at Acme Packing Company have voted for the Green Bay Packers to take Ole Miss defensive tackle Walter Nolen in the first round and Iowa State receiver Jayden Higgins in the second round of a mock draft simulation. It’s hard to argue with the results, considering how much of a scheme fit Higgins would be in Green Bay at 6’4” and 214 pounds with a 4.47-second 40-yard dash....

When crowds are smart, and organizations are not.

Last April, Arif Hasan wrote a piece at Wide Left grading the draft boards of various draft analysts. It’s enlightening and worth checking out as we roll into the 2025 draft season, especially if you’re interested in who has been good or poor with their draft boards in the recent past.

While individual analysts’ rankings can be interesting, let’s put some focus on the consensus boards. There are a few versions out there, but generally speaking the consensus boards take many of the major individual boards and aggregate them into an average....

The Packers are doing a lot of work on receivers this year.

The Packers haven’t drafted a wide receiver in the first round since 2002.

You know it. I know it. Everybody knows it. It’s a meme at this point. A punchline, to some. “Look at the Packers, they don’t take wide receivers early!” Even if the Packers have largely found pretty decent success taking receivers outside the first round, the talking point masquerading as criticism is still there.

I don’t know if that streak will change this year, but I think we can all but guarantee the Packers will...

The Packers have used multiple early picks on the same position several times under the current regime. Will it happen again this year?

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It has become common practice for Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst to take multiple swings at a single position in the NFL Draft. Last year, he drafted two linebackers in the top 100 overall...

If Brian Gutekunst wants to move up in round one or two, how far can he realistically get?

Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst is no stranger to making moves on the weekend of the NFL Draft. Gutekunst’s very first draft saw him trade all the way back from the 14th pick to #27 overall, then move up again minutes later to #18. Since then, he has been more than happy to wheel and deal his way through the draft and being much more willing to move up than his predecessor, Ted Thompson.

Thompson famously only made a single...

A little more than a week to go until the NFL’s biggest offseason event.

We’re barely a week away from the draft. The walls are closing in. Time is running short. If you’re still trying to make that perfect mock draft, you’ve still got a few days, but your opportunities to really nail it are dwindling.

Really, the work is done by now. It was mostly done weeks ago. Barring something very unexpected, the Packers (and every team in the NFL, for that matter) have all the information they need to make their picks for this year’s draft. And truly,...

Kentucky cornerback Maxwell Haiston will be in Green Bay next week

Usually, when the NFL announces the players who are going to be attending the draft officially, that decision is final. I can’t remember the last time a player has been added to the pool of players who will be in the green room for the draft in the past.

That’s exactly what is happening this year, though, according to The Athletic’s Dane Brugler. Per Brugler, Kentucky cornerback Maxwell Hairston, who wasn’t one of the original 17 players who were announced as draft attendees earlier this week, will be in...

Quay Walker and Devonte Wyatt are up for big 2026 pay days, be it on the fifth-year option or not

Officially, the Green Bay Packers have had since January 6th to exercise the fifth-year options of their 2022 first-round picks. So far, only two NFL teams have picked up these options — the Jacksonville Jaguars did it for defensive end Travon Walker and the Houston Texans did it for cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. before giving Stingley a three-year extension.

So you’re going to see a lot of fifth-year option news over the next two weeks, as the league’s deadline to...

The Athletic’s Dane Brugler thinks Michigan’s Will Johnson could be there at #23

At the moment, the top full-time cornerback on the consensus draft board is Michigan’s Will Johnson, who is currently ranked as the 12th overall prospect in the draft and was as high as fifth on the board coming into the season. While Johnson has an impressive resume, earning back-to-back All-American honors before declaring as a true junior, he has yet to run during the pre-draft process.

He’s had three opportunities to do so: At the scouting combine, at Michigan’s pro day and during a private workout on...

With depth needed in the back seven, who matches up to Green Bay’s typical preferences?

It is that time of year once again, with the combine and pro days now in the rearview mirror, the Green Bay Packers athletic thresholds big board can ride once again. This year, it will be broken down into individual articles, with more explanations provided. The time period used to generate the thresholds begins when Ted Thompson took over for the Packers back in 2005 and runs through the entirety of Brian Gutekunst’s tenure. Despite being part of the same tree, Ron Wolf’s tenure is...

An hour-long documentary will focus on the former QB’s fall from grace.

Once a beloved NFL quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings legend Brett Favre is no stranger to having his name in the news, whether for good or for controversy. As of late, it’s been the latter, and there’s an incoming Netflix documentary which talks all about it.

In 2021, Netflix debuted a series of documentary films titled Untold, which dives into the details of both well-known and lesser-known sports stories. Previous subjects include the NBA’s infamous “Malice at the Palace”, former Notre Dame football player Manti...

Green Bay goes Ole Miss defensive tackle Walter Nolen in the first round of our 5.0 mock

In the first edition of our Mock Draft 5.0 voting, the fans here at Acme Packing Company selected Ole Miss defensive tackle Walter Nolen as the Green Bay Packers’ first-round pick. Through five of these mock draft simulations, the Packers have selected a defensive tackle every single time: Nolen twice and Oregon defensive tackle Derrick Harmon three times.

At this point, it’s safe to say that Green Bay fans are expecting a defensive tackle to be the pick with the 23rd overall selection,...