http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packe...301784061.html
Lot's of info and speculation
1. He predicts a trade down
2. Thinks Kevin Johnson might be available and that he, Oregon's DE Arik Armstead, DT Malcom Brown of Texas might tempt the Packers to use the selection if they fall to the Packers.
3. Trae Waynes most likely gone, but Marcus Peters, Jalen Collins, Byron Jones and P.J. Williams probably will be there. He trusts his scouts that none of them (not even Waynes for this scout) are true 1st round picks.
3a. Necessary reminder he made the same claim about both safeties last year.
4. Sources close to Matthews indicate he wants to go back to OLB, no details on sources except the use of plural.
5. Teams is high on Bradford's chances inside (no source indicated).
6. his scouts on the ILBs: A Journal Sentinel poll of 21 scouts
--Benardrick McKinney led with 76 points
--Clemson's Stephone Anthony (65)
--UCLA's Eric Kendricks (58)
--Miami's Denzel Perryman (57)
--Texas Christian's Paul Dawson (46)
7. The most passive aggressive explanation of a first round draft selection I have ever read:
Read another way: like all drafts, not every player the Packers liked at their pick fell to them, but they did get a safety, proving that not reaching can still fill a team need.Last year, the Packers were set to take either of two inside linebackers, Alabama's D.J. Mosley or Ohio State's Ryan Shazier, but they were picked four and six slots ahead of Green Bay's 21st choice that wound up being used for safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix.
8. Scouts liked Shazier and Mosley more than any linebacker this year.
9. Scout thinks Dawson, Kendricks and Anthony an be 3 down LBs. But Perryman and McKinney are more run stuffers. If you believe this, then Perryman or McKinney would require the Packers to find the 3rd down backer (and dime backer) from elsewhere as he feels neither Barrington nor Bradford are speedy enough to fill the role.
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