20 minutes a day 365 days a year. This is the Packaday podcast. Welcome back to another episode of the Packaday podcast. You can get all your Packaday updates by following us on Twitter at Packaday podcast. And remember to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Play, tune in or Spotify. And of course you can always check us out at cheesetv.com. My name is Andrew Murtig and I'm happy to be back for a series and lead up to the NFL Draft. Today I'm going to be talking about the top 10 most likely picks when the Packers are on the clock Saturday for pick 201 in the sixth round. If you haven't had a chance to check out the series yet, I did the second, third rounds with Kyle Fellows, did the fourth and fifth rounds with Maggie Lone and we'll be going through the sixth and then the seventh round solo. There's going to be other episodes in this series as well coming up some cool mock draft stuff and some other things. 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Last year you got defense lineman Warren Brinsen going back several years to get off into tackle Travis Glover, defense lineman Carl Brooks, kicker Anders Carlson, tackle Cole Van Landen, linebacker Isaiah McDuffie. And so it's kind of some mixed results. I think if you look across the NFL, six round picks typically like maybe barely make the roster you're hoping for a special teams contributor, a depth piece, every once in a while you're going to get a starter. This isn't okay. It's sort of a mixed bag. Warren Brinsen we hope is a rotational defense lineman that's going to be able to contribute this upcoming year. Travis Glover did not work out. A Carl Brooks really good pick for a six rounder, right? Like rotational defense lineman, but somebody who's going to contribute to your team Anders Carlson, obviously that was not a good one. And drafting kickers, you get some mixed results. So that's interesting. Cole Van Landen is going to be looked at as a mix, a miss because he didn't contribute to the Packers, but did just sign a really nice extension with the Jacksonville Jaguar. So he's embedded as a starter there. So for a six rounder, I think that's pretty good. Maybe the Packers gave up on him a touch too early. Isaiah McDuffie, like think what you want about the player and he's not my favorite, but that is a good value in the six rounder. A really good player, a solid guy who can be a serviceable level starter when you need him to. So, you know, maybe it's not a ton of success. There's not a lot of home runs, but I think this is good. And that's where I wanted to talk about what the NFL is typically getting out of picks around 201. So here's just some highlights of the last four years and players that have been drafted to be 200 and 210. So last year, probably the best one was linebacker Kobe King from Minnesota. He was pretty solid. Nothing else really stood out in 2024. Another Viking kicker, Will Richard. You get kicker Joshua Cardi to the Rams and then garden Christian Mahogany for the Lions and a, you know, couple of kickers. Okay. Well, I mean, you get excited about potentially solving the kicker position there, but Mahogany looks like he's going to develop into a solid starting offensive lineman. So that's about as good as you can expect in 2023. Why just your pop Douglas went to Patriots in 2022, tight and Conor Hayward went to the Steelers. And that's kind of it. You know, if you've listened to the other episodes, you have a laundry list of like really good players. This part of the draft, a little shallower. And so I think that helps the level set some of the expectations of what you are going to expect out of this pick. And so as I talk about the top 10 players will go from descending order with 10 to one, there's a couple of rules I'm going to follow. First, the players have to be within a certain range on the NFL mock draft database. There's lots of sources out there. To me, the consensus big board on the NFL mock draft database is the best one. It's not always perfect. And you're going to see that in here, right? Like not everybody online is doing full seven round mock drafts. And that's how they aggregate the data. So, you know, you may have 20 or 30 sources out there. And then they're sort of averaging that out. When you get to this section of the draft, it is a little harder to gauge who's going to be there. Also, let's just remember the NFL draft wildly unpredictable. You know, a couple of years ago, I would not have expected Katelyn King to follow the seventh round. You know, you can think of insert whoever here, a player you didn't think was going to make it to day three, or a player you didn't think was going to make it to the six or seven round, it does happen. And also players that are in this range sometimes get picked way earlier than we think. We can't believe that player went in the third or the fifth. And so this is all just for me trying to mitigate as many of the, there's no way that player will be their comments. I will do my best to keep this realistic. But that's the resources that we're using. I'm going to try to fit all of these players in with what the Packers traditional thresholds are. I don't necessarily strictly adhere to those. I don't believe in all of them. Everything is a pattern until it's not. But I do think, you know, you'd be foolish not to realize Packers do typically have certain characteristics that they look for. And so, you know, there's a change in defensive coordinator Packers have adjusted their types. Sometimes we get a little bit bigger, maybe slightly less athletic offense alignment. So things change over time. But we will jump in right there. And I'm going to start with my number 10 player. And that is cornerback Lorenzo Styles, Jr. out of Ohio State. This is Sunny Styles brother. I don't know where he's going to get drafted. It was shocking to me to see NFL mock draft database have him in the sixth round. But he was currently projected in this range. But the reason why he's number 10 is because I think this is a little bit less realistic of some of the other players. His tape isn't great, but he is a 9.99 RS guy. And that immediately is going to intrigue some general managers to the point where I think it pushes them up. He ran a 4 2 7 40, he's six foot, 194, obviously playing at Ohio State, you know, his level against top notch competition. That's something that people are going to see as a major plus as well. Me personally, I think he's more of a tweener than like a hybrid player. And what I mean by that is like, he's kind of a corner, he's kind of a safety. I don't know if he like perfectly fits in either role. And so maybe that does, or maybe that is the reason why he's in this range in the draft. I have to imagine somebody is going to be banging the tables, like some defense coordinators going to be in their GMs here, like get me this guy. I'm cocky enough to believe in my skills to get the most out of Lorenzo Styles Jr. But if he is there, this is the Packers prototype kind of player. So, you know, might be a little frustrating to watch on tape, but certainly the kind of athlete that historically the Packers front office has really wanted to work with. Another name you're probably familiar with, maybe if you're following along on social media, there's, there was a lot of buzz at least early when the Packers were considering return options. And that is Kaden Wetgen out of Iowa. I have him listed as a kick returner slash wide receiver because I think he's much more of a returner than somebody you would use on offense. But I think you probably get a little mixed feelings here, right? Like Skymore, the Packers already invested in him. He's supposed to be the returner. But this is the guy who was the jet award winner is the best returner in college. Maybe it's unlikely, but if they want to be Joker and just like snap that pool stick in half and throw it down, you know, to Skymore and Wetgen and just see who wins out on the returner role, that is one way to proceed. You get that competition that you want. And this could be a really fun, positional battle throughout the preseason. He doesn't really interest me as a wide receiver. He's 58193, but this would be fully committing to the Reville and special teams. And just getting a guy who in college was the elite of the elite when it came to returners. And if you really want to make sure that that position is fixed, if you think maybe Skymore is it, but maybe not, maybe we can improve on that. Or maybe you just want multiple guys for some reason. This could potentially be a pick. And then the sixth round, you're not risking that much by doing it either. At number eight, I have Wisconsin Edge, her third straight big 10 player, Mason Ryger. And so like, he's an interesting player. And not just because he's from Wisconsin, that has almost nothing to do with it. I evaluated a bunch of edge players to see like, who would stick out. And he's 64 and 251. I think it's a little thin, typically for what the packers look for, but you're on a 478 40 elite splits, he had elite elite jumping numbers. While he's a little stiff, and I would have loved to see the agility drills to really see like, does he fit in with that kind of bendy athlete that the Packers would want? I think at a minimum in the sixth round, you're getting a solid rotational edge. I think he has enough juice to potentially develop into an impact pass rush specialist. So I really like the option. And you're, you're typically not going to find intriguing edge players in the sixth round. But I think there's a little bit there with Ryger to potentially get some interest to stay in the state of Wisconsin. We'll be right back. And number seven, going to go with Clemson quarterback, Kate Klupnik. Again, this is a guy potentially we've seen quarterbacks get like pushed up boards as of late. You know, certainly Packers historically like the on occasion, they'll get stuck missing out on that wave of quarterbacks. And sometimes you think the guys that might be in the fifth, sixth round, get pushed up into like the third, fourth, we will see where Klupnik lands. But right now he is projected in the sixth round range. He's a little shorter than the Packers traditionally prefer. They like six to he's 6017. So he's 617 dense, like it's close enough. But he was highly touted coming in this year as somebody who could elevate into the first round that did not happen. That happens all the time with quarterbacks, right? Like a year out, we think this is the next guy. And then it just doesn't happen. He came out and he's still only 22. He's pretty athletic around a 46940. He has enough tools to be an intriguing developmental quarterback behind Jordan Love. And like to me, he projects as a rhythm based quarterback. He's got functional throw power. You can get to all areas of the field when he sets his feet, his velocity can taper a little bit when he's late, or if he's like scrambling outside the numbers, his accuracy is streaky, particularly down field. But I think short to intermediate is where he's really good in timing and structure. His running ability is meaningful in this projection. And I think he has just enough burst and toughness to stress defenders, whether he's scrambling, whether he's getting designed runs. I think like this is the kind of quarterback that would fit in really well in the Matla Fleur scheme. It's how they wanted developmental guy. I think this is one of the rare players that we've talked about who may not have to be a QB3. I think maybe he could be your backup as a rookie and that'd be super stressed out if he had to play a game or two. But if the Packers wanted to go with a more seasoned veteran, they could also potentially sit club nick for the year and let them develop. And number six is going to go with Miami wide receiver CJ Daniels. And I have talked a lot in this series about the Packers need for wide receiver in 2027. And I'm sure you've heard it from Andy as well. Like most of their receiver room is going to be free agents at the end of season. So yes, maybe there's some extension talks, maybe there's even a trade. But the Packers have to do something about this position group, even though I think they have everybody that they need for the 2026 season. I think somebody taking it like like taking a player like Daniels late in the draft would allow you to develop them on the practice squad in 2026. Daniels to me smooth, he's balanced. I think he has really good pace and body control. He shows functional acceleration enough to deep speed to win vertically when the routes are stacked. I think his contested catching shows up really consistently. He's got strong hands, he's got good awareness of the boundary. After the catch, he's efficient. I think maybe not dynamic, but what I liked was his blocking effort was really reliable. I think he's a versatile depth receiver and he could potentially develop into something better than that. So this is the guy you take and then hopefully in year two he's ready to step in and be your third or fourth guy. He had a 4540, a 703 cone, those all fit in with the Packers' historical preferences of wide receiver. I think this is the guy who will be a really interesting late round addition. All right, so pre-warning, the next three are all tight ends. I'm going to go through them relatively quickly. I just thought the value here, both what the Packers would want also aligning with what they prefer and just like the fact that there's some pretty solid rotational tight ends. We know the NFL is moving to a lot of 13 personnel. We don't know what Matt LaFleur thinks about that personally, but I mean, I would think that they would want to add to that room and get a really solid third guy for now and potentially replace Musgrave down the line, and especially with Kraft coming off the injury. So the first one up, number five, is Tanner Koziel out of Houston, big frame. He wins with size and physicality, more than athletic separation. His route running is upright and pretty deliberate. So he's not going to separate big timing and man coverage, but he's good at finding space and zones, which is a huge skill to have. His contested catching is defining trait. I think he's got really good length, strong hands, body control. He wins in traffic and in the red zone. His blocking effort is there, but like a lot of college tight ends, he needs better technique. He needs lower body strength improvement, especially if you're going to ask him to do anything against edge rushers. But he's 6'6", 247. So big dude, maybe get a add a few pounds, but 4'7", 40. Good splits, great jumping numbers. He's an explosive guy. I would have some questions about the agility, but overall, I think as a depth tight end, you'd be getting a lot of Koziel. The next one up is going to be Michigan tight end Marlin Klein. He's a size-based physical profile with route running that favors vertical and intermediate concepts over getting quick separation. So something is common there. He's effective in contested catching situations. He uses frame and his strengths to win at the point of the catch. His blocking really stands out. And that's where I think Klein separates himself. Good power, good leverage in the run game. I think he's a traditional inline tight end who the packers could utilize right away as their like traditional blocking tight end, but then also I think in two and three tight end sets would be really good there. Interesting measurements. He's 6'6", but he's measuring at 240, which is a little thin, right? Your blocking tight end, you'd probably like to see a little closer to 60 than 240, but he ran a 4'6", 140, which is surprising. So I wonder if he's thinned down a little bit to get those running numbers down. But I think this guy put the blocking on tape and that's the most important thing to me. He could be a well-rounded depth tight end. I really like him a lot. And then you had another big 10 player here. Indiana's Riley Noakowski. This is a former Wisconsin player. Actually, he's from Milwaukee. So local guy, very different frame than the first two guys I talked about. 6'2", 250. So he's real squatty. Maybe more of an HVAC type, but he ran a 4'6", 6'40". Good jumping scores. He's not an elite athlete for tight end, but I think you could fill a role that, you know, Matla Flora would love. Remember Josiah DeGuarre and what he was supposed to be. I think Noakowski could fill that role. And you're not investing a third round pick in him. Just won a national championship with Indiana. He was a really, really effective player for them. I think limited separation, but competes well in contested catch situations. Got really sound hands. His blocking is consistent and effort-driven. And I think, you know, what you're going to get is, you can use him at inline tight end. I think you can put him in the backfield and use him a little bit as fullback. He's a good catcher. He's a smart player. He's gritty. He's going to block for you. So to me, this is a really intriguing option where the Packers have not really made the attempt to replace that DeGuarre role, which obviously they weren't satisfied with. And I'm not saying Noakowski is going to be like that, but like this could be an improved version of that and give you somebody in the scheme that could be really effective. And number two, I'm going to go at running back. And this is Clemson's Adam Randall. He has 6'2", 232 pounds. Big, big running back. He ran a 4'5", 40. At 232 pounds. They were really impressive with elite jumping numbers. His shuttle was atrocious. And so that's not really fitting in with what the Packers would prefer. Could they like 3 cone for running backs? He didn't compete in that. I don't think he would have done super well based on the 3 cone time. Usually those are relatively correlated. But there's a reason why a guy so big an athletic could be falling into the 6th round. One is agility for sure. And one is he's a converted wide receiver. Thus the huge body, right? This guy could borderline play tight end in the NFL now. So you get a player who has a floor, has a really weirdly shaped 3rd down back. Like he still has those receiver skills, natural catcher, good route runner. But he also has the ceiling to be a hammer in the running game if you can figure out how to play the position. Now this is not a guy who's going to do the Josh Jacobs make the 1st tackler miss every single time. I don't think that's ever going to be his game. But he's big and he's fast. So you get this cool 3rd down back built in. And then I think you could also get like a real sledgehammer to be a nice change of pace and maybe potentially develop into a contributor. Not a future starting running back in my opinion. But I think he could have a really nice role in this as a guy when he's your 2 or your 3, you're really happy with. Maybe the antithesis to Chris Brooks was like really solid, right? Randall is going to be way more flashy, but I think those skill sets play really well together. At a minimum, I think he's a really interesting kick return option because he's so good straight line and he's so big and maybe not the hardest guy to tackle at that size as you would expect. But I think that's an area of improvement. So really, really intrigued by Adam Randall and where he's going to end up in the draft. My number one most likely player for the Packers at 201 is going to be Offensive Guard Logan Taylor out of Boston College. He's not incredibly flash and paper, but I think he provides a really intriguing depth into your offensive lineman who could develop into a starter over time. He's 6'6", 3'14". That's that power player that the Packers have seemed to be moving towards. But he's still plenty fluid. The 4'8", 4'4", shuttle time just misses their past thresholds. But again, the Packers have been making exceptions to those numbers to get bigger at guard and Taylor is a bigger guard. He has a 7753 cone, which is under what their typical thresholds have been. So that's great, especially at 314 pounds. He's a really smart player. He has enough power and movement skills to be effective. I think he's an incredible value in this in the 6th round. And this is exactly the kind of player the Packers have had a lot of success with where you look back in two or three years and like, how did that guy fall into day three? He's a really good starter for the Packers and they did it again. So I think Logan Taylor fits that role incredibly well. And he's somebody that I'm going to keep my eye on in the 6th round for a potential Packers pick on Saturday. But that is all the time that we have for today. It's been the Packer Day podcast. You can find me at Andrew Merdig. Please make sure you check out the rest of this draft series. So again, I mentioned it earlier, but you can check it out on the Packer Day audio. The video is going to be available for Packer Day subscribers first on YouTube, and then it will release after a few days to everybody else. But hope you're enjoying the series. I will be back with the 7th round and then we're just going to continue with some hopefully really fun things. So tell me what you think in the comments about the 10 players listed out here for the 6th round. Hope you enjoyed it and thanks so much for listening. And as always, remember,
