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Rank The Roster: 2024 Edition

1. Jordan Love (53%)[+8]
2. Rashan Gary (36%)[+3]
3. Jaire Alexander (48%)[-2]
4. Zach Tom (27%)[+13]
5. Kenny Clark (33%)[-1]
6. Xavier McKinney (35%)[FA]
7. Elgton Jenkins (47%)[-1]
8. Josh Jacobs (43%)[FA]
9. Jayden Reed (36%)[+18]
10T. Christian Watson (24%)[-2]
10T. Dontayvion Wicks (24%)[+21]
12T. Preston Smith (27%)[-2]
12T. Devonte Wyatt (27%)[+4]
14. Quay Walker (40%)[--]
15. Luke Musgrave (28%)[+7]
16T. Romeo Doubs (26%)[-1]
16T. Lukas Van Ness (26%)[+2]
18. Keisean Nixon (25%)[-1]
19. Tucker Kraft (21%)[+12]
20. Rasheed Walker (32%)[+12]
21. Eric Stokes (28%)[+1]
22T. Javon Bullard (38%)[R]
22T. Edgerrin Cooper (38%)[R]
24. Josh Myers (27%)[-3]
25T. Jordan Morgan (28%)[R]
25T. Carrington Valentine (28%)[+6]
27T. MarShawn Lloyd (25%)[R]
27T. Karl Brooks (25%)[+6]
29. TJ Slaton (33%)[-5]
30. Sean Rhyan (29%)[+1]
31. Kingsley Enagbare (36%)[-6]
32. AJ Dillon (36%)[-20]
33. Bo Melton (42%)[--]
34. Isaiah McDuffie (44%)[--]
35. Colby Wooden (40%)[--]
36T. Ty'Ron Hopper (23%)[R]
36T. Evan Williams (23%)[R]
38. Corey Ballentine (26%)[--]
39. Eric Wilson (25%)[--]
40. Current (xx%)[--]

Percent of vote the winner got will be in parenthesis, position change vs. 2023 will be in brackets.

Here's how this works:

Each day there is a new thread/poll, starting at #1, on down to whereever we get. The whole point of this exercise is to have something to talk about in the lean news months to carry us to camp. Each poll will be open for voting for 24 hours. New threads will only be created on weekdays. Ties will cause a runoff poll. You may vote up to TWO players (a change that was made mid-poll last year, seemed to work well).

Simply voting is not enough!

Post why you voted for who you did and provide a player to add to the next poll (every poll will be a list of 15-20 guys, new players added in bunches every few days).

Here's the thing. There is no criteria. This is an exercise to foster discussion therefore there are no clear criteria for ranking. Who is better right now? Who will have the best season? Who was better last year? Sort of a combo of them all? Do you take positional value into account? It really doesn't matter.

Previous Years:
Rank the Roster: 2023
Rank the Roster: 2022
Rank the Roster: 2021
Rank the Roster: 2020
Rank the Roster: 2014-2019

We've reached the end. Camp is here, game on football 2024.

Sticking with the two I've been with for a while. Clifford and Dillard. Backup QB and RT or swing tackle.

Edit - Ha, apparently I should have read some camp reports before my picks today. Yikes on Dillard.

Ben Sims gets my lone vote.

Yeah, I'm officially off the Dillard train.

I went Clifford and, on a flyer, King.

Clifford, because backup QB is an important role although I hope his play shows considerable improvement over last year and what we've seen thus far in 2024.

King, just because I think he's capable of surprising us with a level of play not commensurate with his draft position.

NCF wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2024 06:10

Ben Sims gets my lone vote.

I like him but, by my count, he's got three other TEs he's gotta surpass in order to see any meaningful snaps.

I would do a recount. He is clearly TE3 in my book. Who do you have ahead of him? Tyler Davis? Davis has a shot because of ST, but I don’t think he is close to reclaiming TE3.

Sims as 3rd TE and A Johnson Jr.

thanks again WAldo

Have to go with back up QB Clifford again, to valuable a position not to

NCF wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2024 06:49

I would do a recount. He is clearly TE3 in my book. Who do you have ahead of him? Tyler Davis? Davis has a shot because of ST, but I don’t think he is close to reclaiming TE3.

This.

Last year, the Packers kept only 3 TEs at final roster cuts.

I think Davis will be more valuable to the team as a core STer and part-time TE than Sims. Sure, Davis was injured last year but in 2022, Davis played on 81% of ST snaps, tops on the team. By comparison, last year Sims played on only 23% of ST snaps. Yes, a significant portion of ST snaps will be reallocated this year with the departure of several of last year's STers but I think, based on history, the Packers see Davis as a key contributor. Sims? Who knows?

If, by chance, the Packers go with four TEs this year, I think Davis will be more impactful than Sims in his dual role as part-time TE and core STer over Sims who, if he makes the roster, will be relatively equal in TE pecking order but significantly below Davis in ST snaps.

Just my gut.

APB wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2024 09:47

If, by chance, the Packers go with four TEs this year

They will most certainly go with 4 TEs on the 53.
On offense, MLF runs 12 personnel at a very high rate and he needs to both spell his starters and protect against somebody busting a chin strap
On STs, I've read the new kick-off rules will favor blockers who are good in space and that's the TE room

Sims vs Davis ? Davis has the edge in experience, but is coming off an ACL.Sims showed well when given chances, including a TD vs the Chiefs on a play MLF schemed up for him. Very deep and talented TE room.

BSA wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2024 13:20

APB wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2024 09:47

If, by chance, the Packers go with four TEs this year

They will most certainly go with 4 TEs on the 53.
On offense, MLF runs 12 personnel at a very high rate and he needs to both spell his starters and protect against somebody busting a chin strap
On STs, I've read the new kick-off rules will favor blockers who are good in space and that's the TE room

Sims vs Davis ? Davis has the edge in experience, but is coming off an ACL.Sims showed well when given chances, including a TD vs the Chiefs on a play MLF schemed up for him. Very deep and talented TE room.

I'm pretty confident we keep 4. Musgrave and Kraft are obvious locks. Sims proved to be a pretty good player. Hes not going to kill you if he starts at TE and hes athletic enough to make an impact on teams. Meanwhile Davis will make an impact on teams. Hes one of our go to guys for all teams units when he was healthy.

BSA wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2024 13:20

APB wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2024 09:47

If, by chance, the Packers go with four TEs this year

They will most certainly go with 4 TEs on the 53.
On offense, MLF runs 12 personnel at a very high rate and he needs to both spell his starters and protect against somebody busting a chin strap

Yet they went with 3 TEs last year running the same offense. Hmph.

I, too, think they’ll ride with 4 TEs, but I don’t believe it to be a certainty by any stretch. Not if they want to hide an extra WR and/or groom an up-and-coming OLineman, for example.

APB wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2024 17:57

Yet they went with 3 TEs last year running the same offense. Hmph.

Tyler Davis tore his ACL in the first preseason game which kind of limits the ability to add another until after cut-downs
However, the Packers still had Musgrave, Kraft, Sims and Deguara on the roster all year. (4)
This year it will be Musgrave, Kraft, Sims and Davis (4)

BSA wrote: ↑

25 Jul 2024 10:43

APB wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2024 17:57

Yet they went with 3 TEs last year running the same offense. Hmph.

Tyler Davis tore his ACL in the first preseason game which kind of limits the ability to add another until after cut-downs
However, the Packers still had Musgrave, Kraft, Sims and Deguara on the roster all year. (4)
This year it will be Musgrave, Kraft, Sims and Davis (4)

Yep, Deguara was the wildcard in this calculus.

Here's a snippet from a camp report- update on Tyler Davis and his importance to the Packers STs and why he'll make the 53


"Tyler Davis is one of Green Bay’s elite special teams players and a versatile tight end who can deliver in a pinch. So when Davis tore an ACL during a preseason game against Cincinnati last August, it was a blow to the Packers.
“I feel like to some degree we lost our right hand, you know?” Packers special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia said after losing Davis.
“He was an exceptional special-teams player, someone that you could count on in every critical situation, count on to play multiple positions, he’s a big-bodied guy who can really run, was a double-digit tackler a year ago.”

Davis appears to have made a full recovery, though, and is slowly working his way back has been cleared for 11-on-11 work in a limited capacity.

“Anytime someone goes through a major injury like this, you don’t want to just go from zero to 100,” Davis said. “You want to gradually build back into it.” When Davis does fully return, it’s a safe bet he’ll be a key cog on all of Green Bay’s special teams once again.

Davis said that last season, Bisaccia had him write special teams reports on Green Bay’s opponents that particular week.

“(Bisaccia) just wanted me to stick around, and what I’d do every week is write up reports on the teams we were playing,” Davis said. “So I’d go through every single snap and break down every single player from every game in the past. I was watching a lot of tape.

“It was funny because some days I’d be in here, guys would be done with practice, and then they’d come by the film room and I’d still be in there. Very appreciative Rich would even ask me to do that, that he trusts me, and then we’d publish it, put it on the iPads for the guys, and guys would come up to me and talk through things. So it was cool to be part of that process.”

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He'll be my Pro Bowl Special Teamer for sure.