During a press conference, Coach LaFleur said the preseason will tell the team what the bottom portion of the roster will be. Who do you think are going to be the bottom 8-10 players?

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Yeah but I think that's true most years, usually reasonable thought that study the roster close can tell whom top 40 or so locks will be.

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That's probably why the question was asked about the last eight to ten. 😉

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Aaron Rodgers, Davante Adams, Bak, Z Smith, Jaire. Oh wait, you said the bottom 8-10.

In no particular order:
Patrick Taylor and Kylin Hill RB
Malik Taylor and Juwann Winnfree WR
Ben Braden OL
Dominique Dafney TE
Jon Garvin OLB
Oren Burks and Issiah Mc Duffie ILB
Kadar Hollman, Kabion Ento and Josh Jackson CB (Jean-Charles is close but gets the nod of the ones listed.)
Henry Black S

A few of these are closer to 54-60 than they are 45-53. I'm guessing Burks and Jackson are gone.

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I just hope we go with guys who can can contribute NOW vs. the projects.

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Generally speaking, aren't the bottom of rosters projects for every team?

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Trying to figure out the top 45.

Beast's Top 38 (Locks)
QB: (2) Rodgers, Love (2)
RB: (2) Jones, Dillon (4)
WR: (5) Adams, Lazard, Valdes-Scantling, Cobb, Rodgers (9)
TE: (3) Tonyan, Lewis, Deguara (12)
OL: (7) Bakhtiari, Turner, Jenkins, Myers, Patrick, Runyan, Braden (19)

DL: (4) Clark, Lowry, Keke, Slaton (23)
OLB: (3) Z. Smith, P. Smith, Gary (26)
ILB: (2) Barnes, Campbell (28)
CB: (5) Alexander, King, Sullivan, Stokes, Jean-Charles (33)
S: (4) Amos, Savage, Redmond, Black (37)

ST: (1) K Crosby (38)

Likely 7
TE Sternberger (starts off on the suspended list)
OT Kelly (need a back-up OT)
OL Newman (young, cheap, good potential)
DT Lancaster (cheap solid depth)
LB Burks (for his STs)
P Scott (need a P)
LS Bradley (need a LS)


This leaves the Packers with 22 on O, 20 on D and 3 on STs for 45 total. Average roster numbers wise, they need another RB, OLB, ILB and CB which would take up 4 of the remaining 8 spots. Leaving 4 spots for the best of the rest.

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Great analysis...as usual.

My only small nit in your reasoning (and you have a fudge factor of four) is that I think they are likely to keep 8OL for the longer haul....its a long long season and those guys can not be easily found late in the season when injuries occur.

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Absolutely... the team usually keeps 8 or 9 OL and when they have drafted 3 OL (which they did this year) they have kept 9 or 10 as they keep some young guys to develop. And while I have 7 on the locks, I also have 2 down below as likely so there is already 9 in my top 45.

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Are they keeping Burks over Kamal Martin? Seems like they're giving up on Martin pretty fast.

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Heflin looked good. Can he do that consistently?

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Burks is probably a lock due to his ST value. In theory Martin should be staying around because his upside physical potential.... of course, based on upside physical potential he should also be in front of Burks and Summers in the depth chart and he's not... so something (I don't know what) might be going wrong with Martin. I don't have a clue what, so I can't judge why he's struggling to show more value.


That's a great question... Heflin looked like a young Lancaster out there. They might not have huge upsides but they're very solid, play tough and make very little mistakes.

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