Packer Rat Mock...#5 Green Bay Packers

[Fritz]

Trade down. If you can slide to #7 or #8 and get an extra high second rounder, do it. If you have to slide into the teens, get an extra second and third rounder.

Trade down. If it's to #7 or 8 I believe Hawk might still be there. If not, there are lots and lots of good linebackers to be had in this draft. Hodge, Sims, Carpenter, Greenway. Hawk ain't the only guy.

[Bretsky]

Trade down. If you can slide to #7 or #8 and get an extra high second rounder, do it. If you have to slide into the teens, get an extra second and third rounder.

Trade down. If it's to #7 or 8 I believe Hawk might still be there. If not, there are lots and lots of good linebackers to be had in this draft. Hodge, Sims, Carpenter, Greenway. Hawk ain't the only guy.

Not the only one, but I think he's the one a step above the rest.

This all comes down to trying to fill multiple holes or trying to get a star and hope TT finds ways to fill holes. I want the star.

I think San Fran will be licking their chops if Hawk is somehow at 6; if not Davis is their backup plan. And I still don't buy Oakland trading up from 7 unless they think GB is drafting Vince Young. Buffalo at 8 needs a mammouth DL the best NG will be there for them. If we do trade down I think we're likely going into double digit selections, and there we'll get a player much less likely to be a star than AJ Hawk.

[ND72]

I know this isn't a Green Bay website, but it's pretty cool...check it out

http://www.chicagobears.com/draft/2006draftcentral_skin2.html

[mraynrand]

No Wist to be seen anywhere in this thread. But many wanted Davis, and one wanted Ngata. Going back ten years! Yikes.

[woodbuck27]

http://www.rotoworld.com/recent/nfl/3599/haloti-ngata

" Lions re-signed DT Haloti Ngata to a two-year, $12 million contract.

Ngata has been expected to sign an extension since he was acquired in a trade on the first day of free agency last year, but it is just now getting done. Ngata was limited to 14 games last season, but he remained an effective player when on the field. Even on the decline, Ngata remains a force inside. " Mar 9 - 3:24 PM

[pbmax]

Well, ChubbyHubby wins this mock draft. NickCollins/JustinHarrell comes in 2nd.

[Deputy Nutz]

Ngata was the best player looking back on that draft. Hawk was a standard middle of the road player in the NFL. I still would have taken Hawk over just about every other top ten player in this draft.

[Fritz]

Wow, how wrong so many people were about Ngata! Lazy! Injury-prone!

And I just wanna toot my own horn . . . trading down sounds better in retrospect than the respectable but not great career of Hawk, though of course they might've traded down and gotten two lumps instead of just Hawk. But why not take credit anyway?

[Guiness]

Looking back, Davis vs Hawk, which was the major debate at the time, turns out to have been a wash. Neither ended up being barn burners, Davis probably a bit more impactful at times, but Hawk showed up for work a lot more often.

Of the LBs mentioned in the OP, Greenway was probably the best. D'Qwell Jackson was also drafted that year, in the 2nd round.

With the benefit of hindsight, the guy in the top 10 you wanted was Donte Whitner.

[mraynrand]

Looking back, Davis vs Hawk, which was the major debate at the time, turns out to have been a wash. Neither ended up being barn burners, Davis probably a bit more impactful at times, but Hawk showed up for work a lot more often.

One thing of which I am certain: no one in 2006 used 'impactful.' Oh, for those simpler, better days of yesteryear!

[Joemailman]

Looking back, Davis vs Hawk, which was the major debate at the time, turns out to have been a wash. Neither ended up being barn burners, Davis probably a bit more impactful at times, but Hawk showed up for work a lot more often.

Of the LBs mentioned in the OP, Greenway was probably the best. D'Qwell Jackson was also drafted that year, in the 2nd round.

With the benefit of hindsight, the guy in the top 10 you wanted was Donte Whitner.

Shows how much of a crapshoot this is. The Bills were roundly criticized for drafting Whitner that high. He was a "2nd round prospect at best".