General manager Ted Thompson has done it again, taking wide receiver Jordy Nelson with the Packers first pick in the 2008 NFL Draft which was actually the 36th pick in the draft after the Packers traded out of the first round with the New York Jets. If Nelson was the best player available left in the draft, the Packers and the rest of the league are in trouble. Nelson was ranked as about the tenth best receiver available if even rated at all. The Packers might have been able to sign him as a free agent or at least get him in later rounds. My prediction is the Packers will forever be questioned for not taking Brandon Flowers when they had the chance.
Maybe Thompson is counting on Nelson to be the return man they so desperately need, but he wasn’t a return man in college, so that could be a reach. Obviously this means the Koren Robinson experiment is probably over, as the Packers are now overloaded at receiver. Very interesting. I bet Thompson got booed at the stadium for the second year in a row.
More to come…