The Green Bay Packers entered Thursday night’s first-round festivities with a massive and obvious need at wide receiver, but when the draft board didn’t fall right and a big run on receivers came well before their pick, the Packers stuck to their board, didn’t panic and took two good football players.
General manager Brian Gutekunst didn’t force a pick at a need position. Poorly-run teams may have panicked in his situation and reached for a receiver. Good teams do what the Packers accomplished on Thursday night.
Consider this: When the Packers came on the clock at No. 22 overall, the best wide receiver left on Daniel Jeremiah’s board was Western Michigan’s Skyy Moore. He was his 45th best player overall. The Packers took Quay Walker (Jeremiah’s No. 29 player) and then later took Devonte Wyatt (Jeremiah’s No. 23 player).
