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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1061939" data-attributes="member: 18006">I'm taking a little different look at the draft than I ever have before.I've been looking at 4 position groups, comparing the 2025 class to the consensus projected 2026 class and matching those players with Green Bay's needs. The position groups I looked at are (in no particular order) CB, DL, WR, and OL. There's an argument to be made that (on that basis) the Packers might be most likely to go CB with their first pick, WR with their 2nd, and DL with their 3rd.At the CB position group, the 2025 crop appears right now to have significantly more elite players than the 2026 group. The projected 26 crew has far fewer top players but a healthy supply of Day 2 and 3 depth players. If CB is a a strong need, you'll probably get a much better player in the 1st round this year than you will next year - even in the late 1st.The 2025 wide receiver position group is stronger than the projected 2026 class in both top-end talent and overall depth. 2025 has a half dozen or so legitimate 1st-round, impact player talents, and several players likely to slip to Day 2 that are still as good as if not better than most of the top WRs next year. We can get a much better WR in Round 2 this year than we would likely get next year even in the late first, and anyway, WR is an immediate need. I don't think we wait longer than our 2nd Round pick to draft a receiver, and he'll be a better value than anyone we would get next spring.The 2025 DL bunch is the deepest and strongest position group of the draft; 1/3 of the 1st round picks could be DL, and the 2026 class is a very weak position group. According to the consensus rankings, there are DL prospects that will probably slide into Round 3 this year who would be legitimate Day 1 picks next year. This is a draft where we can probably get a starting caliber DL in the 3rd.OL is a little more complicated... a lot depends on Morgan - what he is able to do, and what Green Bay has planned for him. But this seems to be a position where we can afford to kick the can down the road for another year - draft a couple of Day 3 players and see how they pan out, but spend the Day 1 and early 2 picks on OL next year. There are as many as 15 projected OL starters coming out in 2026, and tackles are particularly abundant. Even drafting late in the 1st in 26, we'd have a good chance at getting a Year One starter.</blockquote>

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