Florida’s Desmond Watson put up 36 reps on the bench at 464 pounds

If you can believe it, there’s a 464-pound defensive tackle in the 2025 draft class. Florida’s defensive tackle Desmond Watson, who wasn’t invited to the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis this year, has been a four-year contributor for the Gators and hasn’t missed a game in his college career. On Thursday, he weighed in at 6’6” and 464 pounds during Florida’s pro day.

As you can imagine, he’s more of a space eater than a penetrator. The nose tackle posted just 1.5 sacks and 4 tackles for...

Five positions are on the table for the Packers’ first-round selection

It’s time for our weekly mock draft check-in. The Green Bay Packers still have plenty of needs they could address heading into next month’s college draft, including receiver, defensive tackle, defensive end and cornerback.

How will the Packers handle the first-round market? We took a look at recent mock drafts to attempt to answer that very question. Unlike last week, where several selections were made several times over, this week’s round-up is spread out over more prospects and positions.

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With the draft approaching quickly, it’s the time of year when we get the famous/infamous Bob McGinn anonymous scout slander-fest, in which old men give their unvarnished opinions on the young men about to embark on their NFL careers after reaching the absolute pinnacle of the college game. Unvarnished opinions like, “The mom is a problem” about Missouri receiver Luther Burden. How is Luther Burden’s mom a problem exactly? We’ll never know for sure, but this is hardly the only character assassination in McGinn’s piece. Of top receiver prospect Tet McMillan, one scout wrote:

*“He’s a really immature...

Rodgers has yet to make a decision about his future

Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has not made a decision about his future, in part because the Minnesota Vikings won’t completely close the door on adding him to their roster eventually. If you’ve been following the story this offseason, Rodgers was vetted by the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers as a potential starting quarterback following his release from the New York Jets. Unfortunately for those two teams, Rodgers apparently wanted to be the Vikings' signal caller.

While Minnesota is riding it out with second-year quarterback J.J. McCarthy,...

Medical exams will likely be the focus of this visit.

When bringing in a highly-rated player for a pre-draft visit, the Green Bay Packers tend to focus on players with residual questions, either from an athletic testing, character, or medical standpoint. On Thursday morning, a report has emerged about a player who fits squarely into the last of those categories.

The player is Shavon Revel, a cornerback out of East Carolina. Bill Huber of Sports Illustrated reported the visit, which will almost certainly focus on Revel’s recovery from a torn ACL.

After two years in community college, Revel joined the...

Can Rashan Gary be the closer that the Packers need?

The Green Bay Packers must get more consistent pressure on the quarterback from their defensive line in 2025. That should not be a controversial statement, especially after seeing the group become entirely too passive for long stretches last season.

As ESPN analyst Mina Kimes recently put it, the Packers need a closer on the defensive side of the ball — someone they can count on to get pressure on the quarterback when they absolutely must have it. Is Rashan Gary that guy? He has shown flashes at times, but he...

Keep up with the names of all the players meeting with the Packers ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft.

During Ted Thompson’s tenure as general manager of the Green Bay Packers, the team rarely brought high-level college prospects in for formal visits ahead of the NFL Draft. Thompson’s approach was almost exclusively to bring in a few players projected near the top of the draft to evaluate character or injury questions, and then use the vast majority of their visits on late-round or likely undrafted prospects.

Brian Gutekunst’s approach has differed somewhat, though the team still tends to use visits...

Hardman will have to earn his roster spot during training camp

Spotrac has the details on the one-year contract that former Kansas City Chiefs receiver Mecole Hardman signed with the Green Bay Packers this offseason. According to their website, Hardman will earn a salary of $1,170,000 this year, the league minimum for a player with Hardman’s experience in the NFL.

Beyond just his base salary, Hardman signed a $150,000 signing bonus, equal to what some high-end undrafted free agents will receive late next month, $130,000 in per-game roster bonuses — which comes out to around $8,000 per game that he...

The Packers’ roster is largely set for this fall’s slate of games.

The Packers’ offseason is basically over.

Sure, there’s still the NFL Draft to go, and that’s an admittedly big part of any offseason, perhaps even more so this one with the proceedings actually playing out in Green Bay. But in reality, the Packers will add one, maybe two players that will have a significant impact this year. The rest will be developmental players for a year or two down the line, if they ever develop at all.

That reality means that we’ve basically got the 2025 Packers in...

Green Bay takes Ole Miss receiver Tre Harris in the second round of our community mock

Well, the last round was pretty decisive. In a near-disaster situation, Green Bay Packers fans rallied together to name their second-round break in case of an emergency selection: Mississippi receiver Tre Harris.

Harris is an interesting selection for the Packers because he is “Packer sized” at 6’2” and 205 pounds but lacks the deep speed that Green Bay will be missing with the loss of Christian Watson to an ACL tear. Harris, a former Louisiana Tech transfer, ran a 4.54-second 40-yard dash at the...

Isaiah Bond reportedly has a visit lined up with Green Bay

According to Houston-based reporter Aaron Wilson, former Texas wide receiver Isaiah Bond has pre-draft visits set up with the Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers and Buffalo Bills, beyond his local pro day with the Atlanta Falcons. The Buford, Georgia native won’t count against the Falcons’ allotted 30 pre-draft visits, as he is within their local pro day footprint.

It’s worth noting that Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst and Green Bay vice president of player personnel Jon-Eric Sullivan, who interviewed for just about every general manager opening that came up...

Pearce is a designated pass-rusher at the next level who thrived in wide alignments at Tennessee

Last week, we wrote up a scouting report on the Green Bay Packers’ first major pre-draft visitor, Texas A&M edge defender Shemar Stewart. It should be no surprise that the Packers are in the defensive end market for the upcoming draft, as the team has not changed over a single name in that room other than defensive line coach Jason Rebrovich, who was fired after his unit was unable to put together a successful four-man pass rush last season.

Now, we’ll look into another...