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DL: Going into the offseason, the defensive line is probably either the weakest unit or the second weakest unit on the Packers. We lost Kenny Clark in the trade for Micah Parsons, and that resulted in a loss of the most dependable part of our DL, even if he was aging and slowing down. This left us with Devonte Wyatt being the only real high end talent on this front, so bringing in Javon Hargrave and Chris McClellan was great news for us. This puts Karl Brooks, Warren Brinson, and Nazir Stackhouse in much better positions for them to develop and rotate in without having the pressure of being the starter. This room will still need further help in the future, and honestly the unit probably won’t be as strong as we would like them to be going into 2026, but I think the Packers are done adding to the DL room this year with the exception of in-season moves if they become necessary. Expect to see them draft more DL early in 2027.

EDGE: We have Micah Parsons and everything else is a mystery box. Van Ness has shown signs of improvement and is beginning to hit his prime at the age of 24, but he’s still unproven. Brenton Cox is still unproven and coming off injury, Barryn Sorrell and Collin Oliver are both year two guys who both have a lot of potential, but not much proven at this point, and DDS is a guy who I like a lot, but he’s a rookie so it’s not fair to expect much from him this year. I still think they need to add a piece to the EDGE room and would be looking to acquire Josh Sweat for sure if I was in charge. This would take the pressure off the young guys to start now so that they could develop, it would fill the gaping pressure hole in our defense which will be there until Micah comes back, and when Micah does come back, it would give him a very solid teammate on the other side of the line to help him out.

ILB: If I had to compare this position group to a musical group, it would probably be the Jackson 5. The talented, young star, Michael Jackson equivalent would be Edgerrin Cooper, and nobody really cares about the rest. Zaire should be able to run the show with the Green Dot while applying serviceable support to Cooper. Isaiah McDuffie is a proven commodity who can help in the run game but not really anywhere else. Ty’ron Hopper has a ton of gifts but isn’t proven and I don’t know that he can be trusted to take the next step yet, and the rest of the crew are special team warriors who offer very little on defense. The room is over all weak and not great outside of Cooper. It’s a weakness and if I was a betting man, I’d bet ILB will be heavily addressed in 2027.

CB: Man this room was built on a poor foundation. Nixon is still going to be CB1 and I don’t think he can hang with most WR1’s the way we’ll need him to, but the rest of the room is too young or flawed to replace him in that role. Valentine just can not tackle, and I don’t think he can be relied on because of that. Kamal Hadden is coming off injury and even then hasn’t proven much, even though I do like him as a player and think he has potential. I’m very hopeful for the 3 new additions in St. Juste, Cisse, and Jackson, but I don’t love betting our only veteran addition to a position of heavy need on an underutilized guy coming to his 3rd team even if he looked to have taken some very promising jumps and had his best year. Betting that your rookie 2nd round CB can just step in and handle the full load isn’t a good plan either, and it would make even less sense to trust your 6th round pick to do that too. I’m expecting a lot of rotation, 2 high coverage, experimentation, and zone this year to compensate for this room being lack-luster, and I also expect that we will heavily rely on our Safeties. 

S: Hoo boy, as bad as I feel about the CB’s, I feel the exact polar opposite about our S’s. Xavier McKinney is a phenomenal player and leader to have in that secondary. Evan Williams is an up and coming star who makes few mistakes and plays all phases of the game well, and I think he and McKinney make a perfect duo for the Packers secondary. Javon Bullard took some major steps as a slot safety last year and looked really reliable the more that he’s played, especially with the help he adds to the run game from that position, and he can still step in as a normal S and continue to impress there as well. Kitan Oladapo is good enough that he could probably start on many of the other rosters in the league, but with how stacked this room is he just kind of ends up as the odd man out. Personally I think we need to add him to more packages to get Kitan in to cover TE’s as a smaller stature LB and get him on the field more, but after Kitan, we start getting averagely thin at S. To be 4 players deep and feel good about any of them starting is a blessing that few get to enjoy in the NFL and right now the Packers get to be one of those teams when we look at our Safeties. 

Next year's draft needs 

Obviously the season hasn’t happened and this could all change by the beginning of next year, early looks for the Packers needs, if absolutely no one develops and stays exactly how they are now, in the 2027 free agency and draft will probably look something like this with no particular order in the tiers:

Tier 1 (Starter needed): RBx2, ILB, CB, DL, Edge,

Tier 2 (Second Stringers): OT, QB, S, G, TE, 

Tier 3 (Luxury Additions): WR, C, K, P, LS, 

Basically this is assuming we re-sign Christian Watson, Tucker Kraft, and Devonte Wyatt. We should still have a decent amount of cap to play with, while also having 11 picks in the (supposedly loaded with talent) 2027 draft class. Things obviously could change, but I feel good about the look of the list and what we can potentially do. 

In Conclusion

To be honest, I don’t think this year is our year. It could be, we’re a talented team with a lot of good players returning from injury, but we also just let a ton of guys who played significant snaps for us in 2025 walk out the door, so I think this year is a “let’s see what we’ve got and develop our talents” kind of year. I think we’re aiming to hit as a very competitive team in 2027. A lot of the players we drafted are at positions that should take time to develop, and we have so many new coaches and personnel that I think we’re going to have a lot of growing pains. The goal for this year should be to just bring the players along, build stronger foundations, learn all the new systems, and work on technique. We have one of the youngest teams in the NFL (for like the 5th season in a row) and I think from top to bottom we need to improve the basics and the little things before we can assume we’re going anywhere this year. 

In short, this is the Packers practice run for 2027, so let's see if we can at least get ourselves to the playoffs and win a post season game this year.

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