OffenseQB (2): Love, Clifford (2)
RB (3): Jones, Dillon, Goodson (5)
WR (6): Watson, Doubs, Toure, Reed, Wicks, Heath (11)
TE (4): Musgrave, Kraft, Deguara, Davis (15)
OT (5): Bakhtiari, Tom, Nijman, Jones, Walker (19)
IOL (5) Jenkins, Meyers, Runyan, Newman, Rhyan (25)
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RB3: Open for grabs, especially since they talked about how they need to be able to contribute in STs. Goodson is clearly the best athlete, but we have other returners, while Taylor has a more defined role both in STs and between the tackles.
WR6: Probably also going to a STer, but Heath clearly made the most hype in OTAs.
TE Taylor: clearly lead the team in ST snaps last year, and it wasn't that close... 26% more of the total ST snaps than the guy with the 4th most ST snaps.
OL: I strongly considered releasing one more, but they're trying to develop guys and Gute seemed to be very much trying to protect the guys they're developing and OL tends to lack depth around the league, so to protect them, you have to keep them on the 53 man roster. Also, no idea whom to release next.
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PUPOLB Gary
CB Stokes
I think Gary might be ready by the season, no idea on Stokes. But Packers traditional play it overly safe with medical and this just made it easiest to get down to 53.
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Defense DT (2): Clark, Slaton (2)
DE (3): Wyatt, Wooden, Brooks (5)
OLB (5) Smith, Van Ness, Enagbare, Hollins, Cox (10)
ILB (5) Campbell, Walker, McDuffie, Wilson, Carpenter (15)
S (5): Savage, Ford, Moore, Leavitt, Johnson (20)
CB (5) Alexander, Douglas, Nixon, Valentine, Ballentine (25)
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DT: The huge downside to this roster is with Clark playing at DE, they're is no backup NT should Slaton go down. But in this, I gave it as Clark slides over, as I'm not sure NT Ford is ready.
DE/OLB: It might get interesting as they have talked about guys being able to do both and I think we might see them intermixed more than usual, I think we're going back more to a Vic Fangio 2011-2014 49ers defensive scheme.
ILB: I really don't like keeping 5 ILBers as usually only two play on defense, but ST coaches have seemed to suggest I'm wrong, and want a number of ILBer sized STs.
S: Extremely tough cut, but I don't think they keep six. Cut has tried to keep all the rookies on the 53 man roster as of late, so I think Johnson makes it (especially since the rest are all in contract years, would be nice for one guy to be locked in for next year). So for me it was down to Owens and Leavitt. On defense, Leavitt is clearly the weak link. BUT Leavitt has also been playing a very heavy ST percentage role for Rich Bisaccia for YEARS including 2nd highest in Packers snap count last year and not even close. But it came to do, since joining the NFL in 2018, Owens has only played 8 games in a single season once, and he played for some pretty bad Texans teams.
CBs: LaFleaur had some very good things to say about rookie 7th rounder CB Valentine. And CB Ballentine joined the main roster late, but once on it, he played about 50% of the ST snaps.
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Special Team ST (3):K: Carlson
P: O’Donnell
LS: Orzech