The 2014 draft has concluded and we all wanna give our grades and evaluations before the player has even suited up in the NFL. Let's take a step back a few years and evaluate the 2011 class, shall we? We shall.


This draft SUCKED! Thankfully we got Randall Cobb and that is all we got!

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Yeah, I wish Sherrod had never gotten hurt like that. Guy has had a kind of rough road being that it's going on year 4 and this is his first time being able to practice with the team during the off season. Hopefully the injury trouble is over with and we get a chance to see if he can actually play football.

Alex Green and DJ Williams are the real bummers, they had all the potential and physical gifts to be players but just couldn't put it together. 6th and 7th rounders to me are just kind of throw aways that you shouldn't expect to do much but you can take a chance on riskier players so I don't really care when those guys don't work out.

Davon House I still like, he has shown the potential to be a good player but he's been inconsistent. He'll shut down a WR and bat down passes and make tackles in one game and in the next he'll give up a couple 40 yard TDs. If he could straighten out that consistency a bit he could be a starter IMO.

Sherrod broke his leg horrifically, after being jerked around at G, without having had an offseason.

Green, DJ Smith and Lawrence Guy were all injured too. Guy had a concussion, then got picked off the PS, and as I understand it is still in the league, and performing well.

House has also had injury problems. Played a whole year in a harness, if I recall. Last year he got beat a few times, but also held up against some tough competition. Made some huge plays. He's a but stiff, needs to take some yoga.

Ricky Elmore was a calculated risk there. We all wanted to see what he had, which turned out to be precious little. Still, sometimes a guy like that will have an intangible.

Ryan Taylor is a core STer and DJ Williams was that year's Donald Lee/David Martin type guy. This year's guy who fits that prototype is Rodgers.

As always the biggest problem facing this team is INJURIES. Clean that shit up Mike, or go away.

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Only left for you to pin on Mike McCarthy is cancer. [wasntme]

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It really did suck. Plain and simple. Cobb is the lone savior of this class.

They must have gone into this draft with a massive hangover from celebrating the SB... too bad. That really hurt us. We needed better, and I think they missed on a TON of players that draft.

Outside of Cobb not much there. House shows promise but is inconsistent. We drafted Taylor for ST only and that's all he contributes on but it feels like we should get more out of him somehow. Hell, it seems like we have 3 or 4 guys we keep around for ST only. That needs to change.

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2011 was another draft where we let the draft come to us (at least early in the draft), much like this year, in place of targeting particular players and making moves to get them. Hopefully 2014 isn't a repeat of 2011 in terms of long term success in a Packers uniform.

DJ Smith was a promising player.. still is... personally I didn't get letting him walk so soon.

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What really made this draft so bad was Uncle Teddy loading up on bottom of the barrel picks.

For every Donald Driver there are 1000 Ricky Elmore's. 6 of the 10 picks were in the 5th round or later.

Yes the DJ brothers were on the team for a couple of years and did contribute but they were not awe inspiring by any means.

6 picks to get a special team player isn't a heck of a lot.

This is where I started to say that I hate trading down and accumulating worthless picks.

The comment that more picks means more chances to find a real gem is more or less debunked by looking at 2011. Doing a good job with the picks you have gives you a better chance. Moving up, trading away the junk picks to someone else gets you a better chance.

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We traded back with late rounders for more late rounders. It's not like we traded our 2nd and 3rd round picks for a bunch more 7th rounders or something. You can't trade those 6th and 7th round picks and just move up quality spots because nobody values them much. The strategy they used to get more 6th and 7ths in this draft was fine. They didn't give up any quality spots to get extra picks they gave up junk to get more junk. That it didn't work out in this draft doesn't prove that it's better to trade up in the 1st and 2nd round or anything at all.

4 out of 10 players still left on the team.
Sherrod
Cobb
House
Taylor

Alex Green is with the Jets.
DJ Williams is with the Patriots, also played for the Jaguars.
Caleb Schlauderaff is with the Jets.
Lawrence Guy is with the Patriots, also played for the Colts.
DJ Smith is with the Panthers, also played for the Texans.
Ricky Elmore is a free agent.

Without Cobb, this draft would easily be an D, maybe even an F. With Cobb, the draft can probably be given a C-. House and Cobb are really the only contributors to the team and both have been injured. Others have been injured as well so how do you really evaluate anything they've done? You can't.
Sherrod has been a crapshow since being signed. First, there was constant movement and belief that a lineman can play either side at any position on offense. How did that work out? It didn't. And then they get Sherrod in at the position he is a natural at and he suffers a terrible leg injury. Verdict is still out on him but I am not holding my breath.

Taylor is a good special teams addition but surprise, injured.

Aside from that, this hurts to even look at. Thankfully, Cobb was in there.

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