Green Bay Packers, NFL Draft

The Packers need to use NFL Draft for a first-round receiver

The Green Bay Packers have one of the last picks in the first round in the 2020 NFL Draft. They need to use that selection on a wide receiver to get better.

The Green Bay Packers will be on the clock before you know it.

For some football fans, it feels like the Green Bay Packers got humiliated by the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship years ago. For many Cheeseheads, it happened only yesterday in a championship setting they’d rather forget about. What the 2019 NFC Championship revealed is that quarterback Aaron Rodgers needs some help in the receiving corps.

Outside of his No. 1 target Davante Adams, it’s not like Greg Jennings, James Jones or Jordy Nelson are walking through the Lambeau tunnel. Tight end Jimmy Graham has been revealed as a product of the New Orleans Saints’ passing attack and nothing more. Though Rodgers has a running back he can trust in Aaron Jones, let’s have the Packers take a receiver in the first round.

Because Green Bay finished as the runner-up in the NFC, the Packers will have the No. 30 overall pick. While they could look to draft a successor to Rodgers in someone like Jordan Love, Jacob Eason or even Jake Fromm, the Packers might be able to get a great value pick at wide receiver, supposedly the deepest position in the draft.

By the time the Packers are picking, receivers like Alabama’s Jerry Jeudy and Oklahoma’s CeeDee Lamb will be off the board. If they are lucky, perhaps guys like LSU’s Jordan Jefferson, Colorado’s Laviska Sheanault Jr., TCU’s Jalen Reagor or Arizona State’s Brandon Ayuk will still be on the board. By some miracle, maybe Clemson’s Tee Higgins didn’t get picked yet?

We know Rodgers will throw the ball in the direction of receivers he trusts. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the case for much of the last few years in the Packers’ passing game. While he stopped throwing the ball out of bounds at will out of spite for former head coach Mike McCarthy, 2020 is a big year for Rodgers in Matt LaFleur’s offense. Can Green Bay get to the Super Bowl?

Ultimately, bringing in a borderline first-round talent at wide receiver will show Rodgers that Green Bay is taking the twilight of his illustrious prime seriously. Rodgers isn’t the same player he once was, but he can still win the Packers another Super Bowl, as long as he has enough good pieces around him.

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