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TheSkeptic wrote: ↑

06 Feb 2024 10:42

go pak go wrote: ↑

06 Feb 2024 08:51

Yoop wrote: ↑

06 Feb 2024 08:05

IMHO we don't have a choice, we have to draft the best RB in this draft class, whomever Gute is convinced that is, or we will watch defenses key off on Love, our passing game rocks because defenses have to honor our ability to run, take that away and we'll watch the passing game flutter, we'll watch our young gem of a QB get smacked up.

Wilson, Taylor, Dillon, wont keep our QB vertical, no one schemes to stop either of those 3, none can hurt a defense, we need more then they have to give

I would tone down on your enthusiasm for "best RB in this class". I don't see many elite RBs in this class. Certainly nobody good enough for the first day. There are a couple of guys I would be okay with in Round 2 but even then I'm not thrilled.

Well in hindsight Jones has been good enough to have been a 2nd day draft pick. Maybe a 1st day. But he was a 5th round draft pick. 19 RB's were chosen ahead of him. I strongly suspect that there is a RB in this year's class that can be a capable backup for a year or 2 and then take over as the primary RB when Jones has to hang them up. The question is whether the Packers will draft him. Its even possible he goes undrafted and never gets a chance to show what he can do.

If you go back farther, Ahman Green was a 3rd round pick at a time when RB;s were more highly valued.

Go Pack Go suggested that the Packers would be better off with another lightning back, a Jones clone, rather than a thunder RB complement. He has a point. But the Packers may have let such a player get away. He only played in 6 games last season but he had a 6.7 yards per carry and caught 6 of 9 passes for a 5.7 yards per catch. His name, Tyler Goodson and he never really had a chance to show what he could do in GB. The Packers kept Patrick Taylor instead and he did basically nothing.

There is a surprise franchise RB out there in this year's draft too. You don't need to draft in the 1st or 2nd round to find him.

Yoop wrote: ↑

06 Feb 2024 11:31

go pak go wrote: ↑

06 Feb 2024 10:14

I suggest studying up on RBs and coming up with names you like so we can talk about that.

OK, but I think there is more to the study part then a quick glance at some draft Guru's top positional 5 chart or a top 100 list

I don't watch college ball which is the best eval, so I'am left to reading what the Guru's think, and that will probably change with the combine, which is when this will all heat up.

my point was we need to try and replace Jones in this draft class, so take a shot at the best RB available.