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Why the Packers brought in top 2024 draft prospects for pre-draft visits

Why the Packers brought in top 2024 draft prospects for pre-draft visits

Most of the future top-100 picks that Green Bay brought in during the pre-draft process have a major question mark.

Earlier this week, Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst gave a list of reasons for why future draft choices may be brought in by the team for pre-draft visits. Gutekunst stated that the majority come to Green Bay “answering a question” that the Packers have on their scouting report. For some, it’s football questions or off-the-field situations. For others, it’s the fact that they weren’t invited to the NFL Scouting Combine, meaning that the team doesn’t have a medical...

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NFL Draft 2024: The big and small flaws in three potential first-round quarterbacks

NFL Draft 2024: The big and small flaws in three potential first-round quarterbacks

The Vikings are likely to wind up with one of a handful of promising but flawed QB prospects. Let’s meet them.

There are six quarterbacks who may go in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft, and I like them all. I think that if any of the six land in the right situation, they can be good NFL quarterbacks, and I would have ranked any of them as the second-best quarterback in last year’s draft after C.J. Stroud.

That said, all of them carry some degree of risk, and “the right situation” is different for everyone (woe to...

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Final Packers Thresholds Big Board for the 2024 NFL Draft

Final Packers Thresholds Big Board for the 2024 NFL Draft

A final cheat sheet for typical Green Bay Packer picks.

Draft week has arrived and with it all of the asinine smokescreens. Thankfully, with Green Bay enjoying a very successful 2023, they are not a part of any of that, allowing APC to focus on the more mundane, but frankly more important, storylines of draft season.

The first release of my thresholds big board came a few weeks ago, and there have been some changes in the meantime. From a testing perspective, nothing has changed. By the time of first writing, everyone who would test at some point during this...

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Packers Mock Draft 2024: Bolstering the lines and the middle of the defense in the top 100

Packers Mock Draft 2024: Bolstering the lines and the middle of the defense in the top 100

A top-100 mock sees the Packers scooping up a tackle who takes a surprising fall, then building out the interior of the defense and the offensive line with four other picks.

What would NFL Draft week be without a flurry of final mock drafts? Today, we’re here with a three-round mock, looking at the Green Bay Packers’ five selections in the top 100.

For this mock, I used the Pro Football Focus Mock Draft Simulator. I have executed several drafts in this particular simulator, but this particular mock ended up giving me one of the most surprising — but intriguing...

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Tuesday Cheese Curds: Will the Packers make trades during the 2024 NFL Draft?

Tuesday Cheese Curds: Will the Packers make trades during the 2024 NFL Draft?

General manager Brian Gutekunst seems open to trading up and trading down during draft weekend.

The Packers are not quite on the clock, but the Draft is close enough that they might as well be. And Brian Gutekunst and company appear to be ready.

Not that he’d say anything else during his press conference, but the Packers GM seemed poised and excited to add more young talent to his already young and talented roster. The only question that really remains is exactly where the Packers will pick.

Gutekunst has traded both up and down during his tenure as general manager,...

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RUMOR: Packers Adding a White Alternate Helmet

RUMOR: Packers Adding a White Alternate Helmet

According to a source of UniWatch, the Packers could be adding a white helmet as an alternate

In some non-draft news, we may be seeing the Green Bay Packers donning an alternate helmet this season. According to UniWatch, a site dedicated to all things sports uniforms, a source revealed the Packers are expected to add a white alternate helmet to their rotation this season.

Their source also said they were not expecting the Packers to release a full alternate uniform and said if there was an alternate uniform, it would be “so subtle that I couldn’t tell at first glance.”...

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Packers Big Board Vote #6: JerZhan Newton taken 5th

Packers Big Board Vote #6: JerZhan Newton taken 5th

Green Bay fans went with a defensive tackle over Georgia’s Amarius Mims and Alabama’s Kool-Aid McKinstry.

In another somewhat surprising result, Green Bay Packers fans voted that the team would be more likely to take Illinois defensive tackle Jer’Zhan Newton — who is considered the second-best player at the position behind Texas’ Byron Murphy — over Georgia right tackle Amarius Mims and Alabama cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry.

Packers fans don’t seem against taking an offensive lineman or a cornerback, as Cooper DeJean and three offensive linemen were the first four players that “won” our initial rounds of polling. Instead, it appears...

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NFL Draft 2024: First-round targets the Packers should avoid at #25

NFL Draft 2024: First-round targets the Packers should avoid at #25

The Packers have plenty of options with the 25th pick, but some moves may not be ideal.

The 2024 NFL Draft is nearly here, and the Green Bay Packers need to steer clear of a handful of prospects with the 25th pick.

This isn’t to say that the Packers should avoid these prospects altogether if they fall into the second round. However, whether it’s positional value or the prospect themselves, these players would come with significant risk on a first-round pick the Packers need to hit on to contend in 2024.

Of course, the Packers could very well pick one...

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Monday Cheese Curds: Draft week 2024 is finally here

Monday Cheese Curds: Draft week 2024 is finally here

The waiting is almost over - we're now down to just three days to go before the 2024 NFL Draft.

Get your final mock drafts in and read up on those final few late-round prospects, because the 2024 NFL Draft is finally about to arrive. The wait for the draft seems to get longer every year, but we're now within a week of the big event.

That also means we are just over a year out from the draft coming to Green Bay, giving the city and the Packers their first big NFL event in history. With the league almost...

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SB Nation 2024 NFL mock draft: Packers hold steady at No. 25; still fill major need

SB Nation 2024 NFL mock draft: Packers hold steady at No. 25; still fill major need

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...

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Packers 2024 Top 30 Draft Visit Tracker

Packers 2024 Top 30 Draft Visit Tracker

The Packers are starting to schedule their official visitors in the ramp-up to Draft Day in April.

The 2024 NFL Draft is exactly six weeks away, and the Green Bay Packers have begun setting up official visits for draft prospects. Green Bay has historically drafted many of the players whom they bring in for the formal “Top-30” visits, so tracking these prospects is a worthwhile exercise.

Last year, the Packers drafted four of the players who they brought in on these visits and acquired two more, either as undrafted free agents after the draft or as free agents later on...

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Packers roster updates, team announces 4-3 linebackers and defensive linemen

Packers roster updates, team announces 4-3 linebackers and defensive linemen

The only real question left is whether Colby Wooden is an end or tackle in Green Bay’s new 4-3 defense.

The Green Bay Packers officially updated their roster with the start of their organized team activities (OTAs) last week. This is most significant for the team’s front seven, as the team transitions from a 3-4 defense to a 4-3 defense this year. Based on how the team laid out their roster, though, don’t assume that there are going to be grand changes with personnel.

Many wondered whether 3-4 outside linebackers like Preston Smith will be able to take on the...

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