CBs trades Mock Draft
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You have insufficient rights to see the content.I might as well cover the CB trades first.
The Broncos have seemingly been trying to get rid of a ton of their players drafted by the previous team and this includes CB Patrick Surtain II, whom like Packers Free Agent signing S Xavier McKinney, I believe both have a connection to Packers new defensive Passing Game Coordinator, Derrick Ansley, as I believe he recruited both of them to play at Alabama.
Packers make two big CB trades,
1) Trade CB Alexander to the Falcons, so he can rejoin his former Packers DB coaches in Jerry Gray and Justin Hood.
2) Packers trade for CB Patrick Surtain II from the Broncos to join his former teammate S Xavier McKinney with the guy that recruited them to Alabama in Derrick Ansley and has been a division rival on the Chargers.
This also completes the Packers getting rid of all the players they have been rumored to be getting rid of (Bakhtiari, Campbell, etc) for injuries or locker room reasons. Alexander seemed fed up with Barry, and getting in trouble for telling the media his feelings, and whatever got him suspended with the Panthers game captain issue.
Now that has been explained, here is the draft pick selection.
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1.25 CB DeJean
Seems like one of the top CBs very well could drop to the Packers. DeJean has GREAT footwork and is considered the best run defender of all the CBs in this draft and people believe he could be a starter as an outside CB, slot CB or S.
2.41 S Nubin
His athletic testing numbers were poor, but he's the most instinctive Safety and makes the least mistakes and lowest missed tackle percentage. As Packers keep grabbing great tackling DBs.
2.43 LB Wilson
Athletic freak, 6'4", 235lb, that ran a 4.43 in the 40. He has 1st round talents when healthy. Which is his issue, he's 24 and has a long injury lost. Also when it comes to blockers he's finesse, wanting to go around them and not take them on. But if you can keep him clean, he can absolutely fly.
3.88 LT Paul
An athletic 6'8" 330lbs, developmental LT, he's been able to get by with pure size/athletic skill set too much and hasn't developed his technique enough, but if he does, he's got an extremely huge upside. Pass blocking is his specialty as he's a bit finesse, and not a Mauler despite his size, but that was also true with Clifton and Bakhtiari. He's raw, needs to be developed, but if he develops, his potential is huge!
3.91 RG Mahogany
Absolutely amazing in 2021, off-season ACL tear took away his 2022, in 2023, he wasn't as good as 2021, but he might of needed to knock off the rust as his last couple of games were among his best and Packers have added his head coach on the Packers coaching staff.
4.126 DT Taylor III
Once considered a future 1st round picks, as he's powerful and explosive first step, but he's been extremely inconsistent. His first step can be dominated, but if he doesn't win right off the bat, he sometimes struggles to disengage. His most inconsistent is in the run game, as sometimes he can be powerful and completely control the run games, and other times, his pads go straight up and he's easy to control. But if he falls outside the top 3 rounds, I think you have to start to consider him.
5.169 RB/WR Tracy
After 5 disappointing seasons at WR (mostly at Iowa), a new coaching staff asked him to switch positions to RB and he looked more natural than most RBs. With vision, mental processing and sharp cuts to be a very good RB. Also has a lot of experience on STs.
6.202 RT/OG Wallace
Three year starters at RT, he has great technique but maybe not the physical skill set to stay at OT in the NFL, that being said, I think he might have a long career in the NFL at OG backup.
6.219 Slot Brown
Slot CB, Brown was a starting outside CB at a small school, transfered to Nebraska and made the switch to the slot. Good run defense.and height. I don't want to call him a Safety because he almost no experience deep, then again neither did the Safety the Packers drafted in the 7th in 2023 draft, but he still had more experience than Brown.
7.245 Slot Roberts
Three year starter where CBs have never gotten a passer rating of 50 nor above on him, as he specializes in zone coverage. But some issues include that he's a tad under 5'10", only 190lbs, average against the run and doesn't have the speed. Probably should of selected another LB here, but I didn't realize Roberts was that small/slow when picking.
7.255 ST Athlete Cole
Straight to the point, Cole doesn't have the technique to help too much as an edge rusher. But he is a freak athlete whom gives a ton of effort that might help a ton on STs.
Cole is 6'6", 280, explosive and runs a 4.67 in the 40, and has EXTREMELY long arms, and in theory he'd be the prefect edge rusher, but he simply doesn't have the instincts nor technique for it. But he shows great effort, and might be able to become a great STs player.
Heck, while I don't think it'd work (at least not quickly), I might even try him as an off ball LBer, whom specializes in run defense as he does a good job of being athletic and rallying to the ball, just not beating the blocks, but beating the blocks as an off-ball LB would be a lot different than DE.