TE Palooza (make sure Love is successful) Mock Draft

With Rodgers and LaFleaur it was said the Packers actually had two different schemes, LaFleaur's wide zone scheme that's a lot like Kyle Shanahan's system (Which LaFleaur and Shanahan were together a lot) and the scheme of items Rodgers liked from Mike McCarthy's scheme.


Could it be that the Packers will completely getting away from McCarthy's scheme and fully to a Shanahan like scheme?

If so, the Packers might be running a ton of two TE sets and limiting the 3 WRs sets.

But the problem with that is the Packers currently only have TE Dugara and TE Davis signed for TEs on the roster, which leads me to a TE Palooza mock draft.

Also Gute very well could draft to make sure Love has tools he needs to be successful in the future. Which is why I was wanting OL or TE in the 1st but how the mock feel went a bit of a different way.



Pre-Draft Trades:

Packers get 2nd #43 this year, 2024 1st and 6th round picks for Rodgers and 2024 3rd. This way Packers get first round value and a high draft pick this year, while Jets get to keep pick #13 this year.

Packers get pick 3rd #68 for Savage and a 2024.6th round pick.


Draft:

1) Trade down, trade #15 and #258 for picks #30 and Eagles 2024 1st rounder. Giving Packers three 1st rounder in 2024.


1) DT Kancey
Upside: Potentially the next Aaron Donald.
Downside: Potentially a pass rush specialist only as he would struggle with run clogging if OL can keep up with him.
Boom or bust pick but if he falls this far, it might be worth attempting it and some think he can play limitedly at the edge rushers as well.


2a) TE Washington: Potentially a very athletic TE Lewis, though Washington is not yet developed, but has great potential.


2b) C/OG Schmitz: Zone blocking C that has the size to play OG as well. Gute wants to protect Love. I want to at least improve one OL position.


3a) TE LaPorta, his hands aren't as good as one would prefer, but for a TE he's very athletic and good at breaking tackles after he has the ball and could be a decent H-back with improved blocking.


3b) C/OG Tippmann: If you can promise me Tippmann will fall this far, I'd probably skip taking Schmitz earlier. Tippmann has great movement skills, possible better in a power system than zone system, but I think he has great upside potential and has size to play OG and Packers could want to make sure they have Love has all the OL he needs and they don't have to put a question OL on the field in front of him.


3c) S Robinson: Very versatile best when kept back and asked to come forward, very good at avoiding blockers to get to the ball carrier.


4) WR Mingo: PFF doesn't like Mingo (nor most of the large WRs) but NFL.com does... and Mingo is said to be a large slot WR and despite being 6'2" 220 lbs ran a 4.46 which is a good time for that size. And not saying he's Lazard, but he can block some with his good size.


5a) DT Ojomo is a two gap run stuffer which at 6'3" 280lbs is undersized, but his technic is perfect! And I'm hoping he can add some weight and become a NT. His pass rush is basically not there other than a basic bull rush, but I also think that could be because he was asked to two gap (which he perfected the technic) so maybe he can improve pass rushing if asked to focus on it more.


5b) TE Allen, remember TE Richard Rodgers? Yeah that's Allen. Average all the way around, slow runner but knows how to use his size to block out the defenders and amazing hands if you get it into his area, he's catching it.


6) WR Landers: Speed decoy for when Watson gets banged up. Landers might be going a lot higher than this, because like Watson he's 6'4" and ran a sub-4.4 in the 40 yards dash. But after four years at Georgia only had 132 yards... transfers to Toledo and got 514 yards and transfered again to Arkansas and got 900 yards. So he's showing improvement after an extremely rough start but he's also still got a long way to go... as a simple slant routes looks bad and invites a DB to jump in front of the pass, but if you just want a deep ball only guy (or decoy for such), he can be your one trick pony.


7a) TE Strange, H-back that can play FB or move zTE and you might actually want him as a lead blocker. Very versatile, jack of all trades, but not great at any one aspect. Teams that demand versatile might have him a lot higher than this (and because the Packers do, I would probably take him over TE Allen).

7b) S Howden
7c) S Merriweather
Just going to cover these two together, looks like a number of Big 10 Safeties are not being hyped much despite playing well, if they actually fall to the 7th I'm snapping some of them up for Safety depth and STs. Other Safeties are getting hyped more partly due to their speed, where the Packers need some good zone Safeties which require mentally understanding what's going on more than pure speed.