Early Bird GB Mock

[rpiotr01]

i agree, but it is hard to find a good six-foot corner in the second round. almost every team wants big corners, and there just aren't that many good ones. i'm really hoping we can get someone like chris johnson. he is 6'0", 185 lbs. so close enough to those standards. but coming from san diego state, you have to question whether the competition he played against. honestly, he will probably be gone by the time we pick. in all of my mocks so far, the most recent one was the first time i saw him available. Julian Neal and Devin Moore fit the mold, and will probably be available at our 2nd or 3rd round pick. it is going to be a challenge that's for sure.

No I get it. Also I fully realize these mocks aren't "what I think Gute will do", they're "here are good players at each draft position that I think will help the team now and in the future"

However, over the next ten weeks we are going to start to see the same names churned up over and over and over again and they're going to get stuck in people's heads, and then when the draft comes around and you see the name you've been ruminating on for two months and GB doesn't take him - people get pissed. So maybe I have an inkling to point out when some of these guys just don't match GB's typical process and why they're less likely to be taken (I made a post about Gute some weeks ago where I said I thought that process was broken but that's another story).

 

[57packer]

Tried another different simulator. Kinda like it because it let's you choose different draft boards so you can vary things. This one fell poorly from a CB perspective. Ponds was there at 52 but that was the only real value guy at the position for the first few rounds so I loaded up on linemen.

I think Ponds is a hell of a player, and he's tough. Ten years ago I wouldn't hesitate on him so much even though there's no way he fits the Packer's mold. More broadly these days we are seeing more teams playing more with two TE's on the field and running the ball more. It's why you're seeing more big nickel types like Bullard. Ponds may be tough and may be willing tackler, but week after week, and year after year of hitting bigger players makes you wonder how a likely 5'8"-170# guy will hold up.