If we happen to stay draft around the number 10 pick. There are a number of players that we should be looking at. Obviously there will be many opinions on whom we should draft, but here is my take on it. On the defensive side we have fully invested and failed on so many draft picks lately that it has also now started to take a toll on the offensive side as well. Pettine has at least made the defense a somewhat better and still should be given pieces to continue to improve, but I would like to see much of the improvement to be done in free agency with the draft supplementing those pickups. Getting Dante Fowler, Shaquil Barrett or Anthony Barr, and Earl Thomas or Honey Badger would significantly make this defense better and wouldn't require the use of many top draft picks to help as well.
We should be prioritizing offense early unless say a defensive star falls to us (John Allen, Nick Bosa, or Ed Oliver type player). Currently, it looks like 2 maybe 3 teams in front of us might need to use their first round pick on their new QB's (NYG, JAX,and Cinn and possibly TB). With our first pick, I want to see it be Jonah Williams or Greg Little. While both of these might not make it down to us, if they do we should immediately get that pick in. This Aaron Rodgers has had one of his worst perceived years and it is directly related to our O-Line being poor and to injuries & youth at our receivers. What I mean with the O-Line is that not only did the O-Line struggle keeping ARod healthy, they also led Rodgers to experience happy feet because his O-Line wasn't the same as it has been. Outside of Bahk and Lindsey, the entire rest of the line needs to be improved thru new players thru the draft and free agency. There are a few defensive players that if they dropped to us I'd pick first, but if those players don't fall to us... we should be targeting both of these players for our first pick.
Our second pick obviously becomes more a trap shoot in picking so early, but again I'd really like to see it be on the offensive side of the ball. Davante Adams has been amazing, but both he and ARod need more help on the outside to maximize this offense. I'm not sure that any of the WR's we currently have can be that #2 that makes defenses think differently about how they currently cover us. Davante is going to have 110+ catches, ~1500 yards, and 12+ TDs while being constantly double teamed or heavily leaned towards in the secondary. Allison, ESB, MVS, and possibly J'Mon could make the jump needed in the offseason, but that will take a lot of offseason work with getting on the same page with ARod. Each of them have showed flashes of a possible future #2, but have also shown flashes of WTF was that. An upgrade at TE could also be in order with that first pick. Noah Fant and Albert Okwuegbunam both look to be early picks that would help this team out. I would be targeting either of those TE's and either of those two WR's AJ Brown and N'keal Harris. All four of those players would help this team out immediately.
I would be excited with a combo of those 6 players making up our 1st round. We would be starting to provide two bookend tackles to protect Rodgers on the O-Line and help the receiving corps in providing more weapons for Rodgers and for Adams. Both the Vikings and the Bears have been drafting so early this decade that they have a dearth of defensive talent that we need to protect ARod from that and getting at least 2 starting O-Line from this draft and a free agent OG is almost a requirement.
