Official 2024 Packers UDFA Thread

[Fritz]

Dear Lord,

Please bring the Green Bay Packers another Sam Shields in this year’s UDFA crop.

Thank you.

[run pMc]

The Donovan Jennings get is a good one. Basically like another R7 pick with the guaranteed money, and probably a better fit than their R6 pick Glover. There's twitter cutups of him holding up to Dallas Turner pretty well.
He'll get a legit shot to make the roster as a backup G-T. Don't know much about the others, although I hear the LS has a decent shot of unseating Orzech.

With all the draft picks they've had in the last 3 years, there aren't a lot of spots for UDFAs left.
Feels like a young roster that is divesting a lot of bloated/cap hell contracts.

[Deputy Nutz]

surprised to not see these guys signed by the pack...

Blake Watson
Cody Schrader
Drake Stoops
Leonard Taylor III
Keith Randolph
Gabe Hall
Nelson Ceaser
Gabriel Murphy
Julian Pearl
Garret Greenfield

I cannot believe Leonard Taylor, Gabe Hall, Greenfield, and Ceasar didn't get drafted.

[Brandon494]

Good read on our UDFAs, I see at least two making the final roster

https://packerswire.usatoday.com/lis...class-in-2024/

[Joemailman]

Bowden has the best chance. Ester and Jennings have an outside chance.

[smuggler]

Good to see you posting again, Brandon. I like the crop of UDFAs this year. Some of them face quite an uphill battle.

Who was that UDFA WR we had a few years ago who had a pretty nice end to a season and then abruptly retired in camp the next year?

E: Michael Clark, his "nice end to a season" was relative to his acquisition cost, I suppose.

[Fritz]

I am hoping that Dmitri Stanley gives the wide receiving room a wake-up call that it's not just going to be an easy slide onto the team.

[Joemailman]

I am hoping that Dmitri Stanley gives the wide receiving room a wake-up call that it's not just going to be an easy slide onto the team.

All competition helps. But even without the UDFA's, you're going to have 9 guys (Doubs, DuBose, Heath, McGough, Melton, Reed, Toure, Watson, Wicks) fighting for possibly only 6 spots. It should be very competitive.



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[Fritz]

All competition helps. But even without the UDFA's, you're going to have 9 guys (Doubs, DuBose, Heath, McGough, Melton, Reed, Toure, Watson, Wicks) fighting for possibly only 6 spots. It should be very competitive.



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Well, Samari Toure has already used up his "my gosh, he came in with his body completely rebuilt; he looks seriously in shape and ready to make a big leap forward" story last year. He also looked really, really pedestrian early in the year when he had a real chance to make a mark. He looked lost - crummy route running, drops. Same as a returner - some bad drops when he was called upon to go out there and at least catch the damn ball. I have a hard time envisioning a camp in which he's so good he knocks someone else off the roster.

I also see this as a crucial season for Christian Watson. This is season three; the first two were injury-marred. Supposedly he's got some answers to help him solve his hamstring problems. I sure hope so. He brings a dimension to this team no other receiver does. But if he has another injury-plagued year, you've got to start thinking about drafting a speedy, talented receiver to replace him.

Should be fun this year. I'm curious to see how Grant Dubose does. A few Packerrats were high on him before training camp. Then he got smoked - by an injury.