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  1. CheezWizHed
    Banks has been an average-ish for the 49ers. He started very poorly for the Pack, but finished better. I would suspect him to be "OK" as long as he is healthy. The Morgan/Walker thing was challenging. Coaches miscast Morgan as the flexible T/G type, and I don't think he did well at G. Meanwhile, Walker steps into the LT role and does well with it initially. In 2024, he was pretty good, which made it hard to replace him until Walker really struggled in 2025. A weird situation that I put on the coaches more than the player.
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    CB Jackson - I was just looking at the best CBs left, but I already posted my guess (likely story I know). Well, we certainly got taller at CB... hopefully it is better too.
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    6th Round: OT Pounds, QB Nussmeier, WR Caldwell?
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    As for all the churn about the OL, I'll add: LT: I think Morgan played pretty even with Walker in TC (maybe a tad better), but not enough to displace him as a starter. Then Walker ended up playing worse than he did the prior year. I'm not expecting Morgan to be an All-Pro, but I think LT is his best position. I don't suspect any drop off from Walker with some potential upside. LG: Banks has a history of two things: average RG play and injuries. By the end of the season, his play was solid. We will need depth to replace him in injury but like him or not... he is a starter quality player. C: Rhyan was put in a bad situation last year and did "OK". He certainly needs to improve...and I guess we will see if he can do that. I wouldn't have given him a 3 year contract, but that will give him the first shot. It was more telling that Monk never got a look there last year. We just got our backup. RG: Belton was thrown in the middle of the season without playing G before. He was playing very well by the end of the season. I suspect he will be much better this year. RT: Tom is the best player we have on the OL, so health is the only question here. Kinnard did OK as a backup. Another development player would make me feel better. Rhyan is the player I'm most concerned about. I think the left side will be solid, while the right side could be excellent.
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    For not having a 1st round pick (and without playing a snap), I'm pretty happy about how things have been going. Seems like we are finding players of high value for each of our picks at positions of need.
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    Well, they just picked two players that will probably start on defense. It is unlikely an OL picked will start... so it seems like they feel those are bigger needs. They still have more picks tomorrow. I'll eat my hat if they don't draft one OL if not two.
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    Chris McClellan with 34" arms and 11" hands. Big dude.
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    Singing from the same hymnal
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    Or not..
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    Hopefully the juice is worth the squeeze... Orange you glad for all the puns that we can make here?
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    You have Murray and McCarthy at QB... people in MN are still talking about how to find a QB.
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    Excellent. Cisse was on my short list of "if these aren't there, trade down". I didn't see any mocks or sims where he lasted that far.
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    When he signed it, there were many questions about if he would still go to AAA for some time or start in MLB. When he started in MLB, he was hitting poorly for 2 months and people (myself included) questioned if he needed to go down. I said they will be at the same development spot this fall if Made stays at AA for the year; even the same age.
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    I wonder if Aaron Rodgers reached out to Matthew Stafford today since both got Favred! But ironically, Bart Starr was the last QB who won the MVP and have his team pick a QB in round 1 of the next year's draft...
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    Hunter's college production and pre-draft testing (RAS) don't line up... I'd guess that his visit was to vet out the discrepancy (Not sure if they can test on a visit or not?). Whatever the result of that visit is probably what will determine if the Packers go after Hunter or not.
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    It would be really funny to put out 4 runs on back-to-back Cy Young winners with a lineup missing 3 of our best hitters! Bunt them into submission!
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    Two words: Brice Turang I'm not going to say that Pratt will become Brice with the bat, but I think their profiles/potential is very similar (save for Pratt being taller). Brice went through most of his minors without hitting very well at all (at least not for someone considered a "top prospect"): 270/363/378/740. That was while Brice was ages 18-22. Cooper is about to turn 22 at AAA (so the same ages at the same levels). His 253/349/363/712 is behind Brice overall, but not terribly. And Brice had a really nice AAA year to boost his numbers where Cooper's above average production (104 OPS+) at AA that still lowered his overall OPS. A full season at AAA might close that gap (though he is pretty cold right now). Somewhere on here, I did a cost-benefit estimate for given Pratt the contract now. The only way this really "fails" for the Brewers is if Pratt is a zero or negative WAR player (someone you wouldn't take to Arbitration). If Pratt becomes Joey Ortiz (~2 WAR player), the Brewers are paying the "typical" cost of that player as they go through arbitration and FA. The Brewers don't normally pay FA prices for that type of player, but it isn't a massive anchor on their necks either. If Pratt reaches Adames or Turang levels (or higher...) this contract starts to pay off very well. I think it is a very safe bet to say Pratt's floor is Joey Ortiz. Can his ceiling be Turang? It isn't that big of a stretch. Edit: found the link to my Cost-Benefit analysis of the contract:
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    Pretty much the same development spot as Chourio (except Chourio was younger). There was a lot of speculation that Chourio needed time at AAA too... even a couple of months into the MLB season. They took the same path by signing both prior to any AAA ABs. Both had the risk of needing time at AAA and Chourio got a lot of debate by starting his rookie year very slowly for the first 2 months. If Pratt heats up at AAA and Ortiz doesn't, I don't think it will take much to switch. But for Made, I don't think they were going to give him an MLB contract with zero ABs at AA. Come Aug/Sept... that might change if they want him to come up for the stretch run and playoffs. He is certainly making AA look like cake right now.
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    Banks was generally seen as a 1st round talent with risk due to injuries. Based on boards, I was kind of hoping he'd slide to the Packers, I've never understood why people are so in love with "the board"... as if that was absolute truth. People that aren't good enough to be the GM of an NFL team make up the boards. (Granted some GMs in the NFL aren't good enough to be GMs either, but... ). But GMs do get more access to medical records than the media does, so I suspect they vetted out the risk before taking him, but we can still hope it was a dumb pick. 😉
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    @patrickgpe this news coming on the cusp of the NFL draft and at the end of a very 🤢Bucks season is probably why there isn't much discussion. Frankly, I don't know much about the coach to know if this is a good hire or not... But I think you make a good point about this being an indicator of running it back with Giannis. So what sort of coach is Jenkins? Is he going to be able to change Giannis at all? I think the point-forward offense really needs to go bye-bye (at least not the default). KPJ and Rollins are good distributors. Let them (and ball movement in general) free up Giannis instead of the "GA-takes-on-all-defenders" offense we normally see.
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    It is quite possible the trade was motivation for Contreras to improve as a catcher.
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    Certainly it will be more than Chourio just for inflation. I suspect the Brewers have had talks with Made and his representation, but I doubt they made any offer with zero AA ABs. Like I said before, if he is on Chourio's "schedule", the offer would come this fall (which is pretty similar to Pratt's schedule too).
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    Dugger just sounds like a ST demon to me. JVDB too. Both have potential upside/depth abilities at LB/DT, but a high RAS, 30 visit inclusion, and ST potential just seems to align as a Packer Pick.
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    I will say that there are a lot of players in the 40 range that seem like Packer targets: Edge: Lawrence, Young DT: Hunter, Miller, Banks CB: Cisse But then again... listening to a GM talk before the draft seems kind of pointless. 😂 If one of those don't fall, I'm hoping for a trade back to grab Orange and then build depth in the mid rounds at CB and OL.
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    I figured we could use a new thread to discuss the Packers' picks and other interesting happenings. Got any predictions? Any favorite players? I suspect that the 2nd round pick (if we stay there) won't be a DT or CB that everyone is hoping for (like my hope of getting DT Christian Miller). I'll predict an EDGE like Dani Dennis-Sutton or Gabe Jacas Later in the draft, I'll guess we add Jordan van den Berg, Trey Zuhn III, and Jaden Dugger. All three seem like Packer stereotypical picks.
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