One of the needs for the Green Bay Packers heading into the 2024 NFL Draft was the offensive line. The team parted ways with two long-time contributors, as left tackle David Bahktiari was released as a cap casualty and Jon Runyan Jr.
With the draft officially in the books, here’s a look at five players who could potentially lose their starting jobs to rookies this season.
Packers Nation, In a few short days we’ll be able cheer for a new class of rookie Packers! Until then I offer one last prediction model. Let’s take the top-5 NFL salaries per position and compare them to the Packers needs to see if that gives us an interesting lens to analyze Green Bay’s approach in the early rounds of the upcoming NFL draft.
The Green Bay Packers surprised a lot of people during the 2023 NFL season. After a rocky start to the Jordan Love era, the team picked things up in the second half of the season, sneaking into the playoffs as the last Wild Card team.
Left tackle Rasheed Walker and right tackle Zach Tom just received sizeable checks for their 2023 efforts. On Tuesday, Sports Illustrated’s Bill Huber reported which Green Bay Packers were the biggest beneficiaries of the NFL’s performance-based pay program.
It was an improbable run by the Green Bay Packers and, frankly, they have no reason to hang their head despite a 24-21 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC divisional round.
GREEN BAY Wis - The old saying goes if you have two quarterbacks, you don't have any. There isn't a saying like that for left tackles or right guards, but that is the world the Green Bay Packers were living in midway through the 2023 season.
At Penn State, Rasheed Walker got plenty of opportunities to block Micah Parsons. “We used to do one-on-ones against each other,” Walker said this week.
Another week with a horrendous defensive performance leading to a disappointing loss for the Packers. As always, we still have plenty of Packers positives to go over.
Rasheed Walker will likely want to forget the first half of the NFL season. Walker leapfrogged Yosh Nijman to the No. 2 left tackle role and immediately saw action following Week 1 after the Green Bay Packers lost David Bakhtiari for the year due to a season-ending knee injury.
The Green Bay Packers have a first-year starting quarterback and the youngest pass-catching group in the entire NFL over the last half decade. Before the season, left tackle David Bakhtiari, the oldest offensive player on the Packers roster, was expected to be a pillar for the up and coming players around the roster.
Rotations are frequent for wide receivers, tight ends, defensive linemen, linebackers. But it’s not common to see NFL teams putting offensive linemen in and out of the lineup.
The Green Bay Packers are going to be, as expected, without two of their starting defenders, and both of them are former first-round picks. Cornerback Jaire Alexander (shoulder) and off-ball linebacker Quay Walker (groin) are officially inactive for the versus the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Could the Green Bay Packers face the Pittsburgh Steelers without two of their best defensive players? It’s certainly possible. At the start of Thursday’s practice, linebacker Quay Walker and cornerback Jaire Alexander pedaled exercise bikes inside the Don Hutson Center while their teammates ran outside for the start of individual drills.
The Green Bay Packers lost David Bakhtiari for the year and they thought former seventh-round pick, Rasheed Walker, was the best replacement option after a solid training camp and preseason.
Walker is the expected starter at left tackle for the remainder of the 2023 regular season. One of the most surprising players to become an every-down contributor for the 2023 Green Bay Packers is tackle Rasheed Walker, who played just four special teams snaps as a rookie last season.
The biggest strength of the Green Bay Packers coming into the 2023 season was their offensive line. Across the board, this was a unit that looked like it could be special.
When the Green Bay Packers lost All-Pro left tackle David Bakhtiari and Pro Bowl left guard Elgton Jenkins to knee injuries in 2020-21, other players were able to fill the void they left.
If the Green Bay Packers are going to improve to 2-0 in the Jordan Love era, they’re going to have to do it without some key players. The Packers released
The Green Bay Packers will finish their final preseason game on Saturday. That will be followed by NFL cutdown day when the Packers and the other teams in the league need to reduce their rosters to 53 players.
People who follow the Green Bay Packers closely expected the development of their young tackles to be a big factor during training camp. From that group, Rasheed Walker has been particularly impressive.
As the 2023 regular season draws closer and the battle for each of the 53 roster slots heats up, the Green Bay Packers’ coaching staff is still figuring out what many of the position groups will look like come September.
The Green Bay Packers have signed offensive tackle Rasheed Walker, a seventh-round offensive tackle from Penn State. With that, the Packers have signed all four of their seventh-rounders and eight of their 11 draft picks overall.
The Green Bay Packers are wasting no time in getting their 2022 NFL Draft class under contract. On Thursday, they signed their two first-round picks, linebacker Quay Walker and defensive lineman Devonte Wyatt.
Phil Trautwein, Penn State's second-year offensive line coach, spent last season trying to read his players through a camera lens. Everyone tried their best, but Trautwein acknowledged the system's limitations.
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