The Packers have played 8 games in what is now a 17 game regular season. While it is still way too early to estimate the 2022 Packer draft class productivity in three years, we can at least review the impact each player has had on the 2022 Packer team.
Starting a draft review requires two different focus of analysis. Player potential and contributions to the team in the current year. Drafting players always has risk and not every player blooms to NFL quality production, much less stardom. Ron Wolf’s standard for a successful draft was measured by how many quality starters the team selected. Three quality starters were Wolf’s magic threshold number in deciding if the team had a successful draft.
First Round:

Quay Walker
Devonte Wyatt
The two defensive draft picks from Georgia, the 2021 college’s best defense, seemed like safe picks that could both contribute early. Wyatt, at age 24 when drafted, looked like he could slot into the porous defensive line of the Packers. Walker looked like a huge upgrade from 2021’s starter, UDFA Krys Barnes. Walker took the starting role from Barnes, but his play has in many ways contributed to the failures of this year’s defense. The run defense has not improved. Walker does not make plays at or near the line of scrimmage. His inability to unlock his focus from the quarterback and see shallow crossing route runners has been the bane of the pass defense.
If you watch his body language, he is clearly a frustrated player. His stupid reaction on the Bills sideline after a tackle that resulted in his ejection has to make fans wonder about his intelligence. Walker scored a 9 out of 50 on the Wonderlic test. An average NFL player scores a 20. Wonderlic Inc. states that any score lower than ten indicates illiteracy. Many scouts praised the player, but the ones with concerns stated they saw poor run and pass instincts. One scout actually said he thought his instincts and diagnosis skills “suck”. In eight games there is no doubt Walker has struggled in diagnosing both run and pass plays. It may not be a coincidence that the best defensive stretch for the Packers came in Buffalo after his ejection.
Wyatt is starting to see the playing field, with 10 snaps against Buffalo. Currently Wyatt is behind Reed, Lowry and Slayton on the D-line. Wyatt also had a low Wonderlic score (8) but his scouting reports did not have the concerns that Walker’s tape generated. The concern for Wyatt was that he was 24 when drafted and was a one year starter. Wyatt doesn’t have as much time as other rookies to catch on. He is only 2 ½ years younger than Kenny Clark. Wyatt has 4 total tackles in 7 games. He has not had a sack, TFL, or quarterback hit. Defensive tackles can take time in the NFL so his potential will be interesting to watch as the season progresses.
Second Round:

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Christian Watson
The small school phenom has so far been a fragile egg since joining the Packers. Knee surgery, combined with multiple hamstring and concussion problems, has limited Watson mostly to the bench. The more time he goes without a significant contribution, the more that initial dropped pass on the first play of the season seems to define him. Naysayers will use the “B” word soon if he doesn’t heal and contribute.
Third Round:
Sean Rhyan
Rhyan has to be the biggest disappointment from this draft. A third round selection that has had starting opportunities due to multiple O-line injuries, Rhyan has not seen the playing field. The Packers said they drafted him to play guard, but he has been beaten out by struggling Zach Tom and the benched Royce Newman. Packer fans remember when 7th round draft pick Mark Tauscher stepped in at right tackle as a rookie and held his own. While the Packers have spent a large number of draft picks on the offensive line in the past few years, besides Elgton Jenkins, there have been no Tauscher sightings in the group.
Fourth Round:

Romeo Doubs
Zach Tom
The Packers may have struck gold in round four. Doubs had one bad game against Washington, but he made two elite catches against Buffalo that had to bring Sterling Sharpe flashbacks to Packer fans. Doubs is on tracks to have the best Packer rookie wideout season since Rodgers joined the team. His potential is All-Pro level and his contributions, and ascension in 2022, may have the success of the team on his shoulders. Or, at least he may feel that pressure. If he responds positively to this challenge, he could be great.
Zach Tom has already shown he can play better than Royce Newman at guard and tackle. Tom’s run blocking against the Bills looked solid. He did have a couple of rough snaps in the passing game, but for his first start at guard, again with only last-minute notice he was starting, the kid has shown resilience beyond his age and stage.
Fifth Round:
Kingsley Enagbare
Enagbare has been a pleasant surprise for the Packers. Two sacks in eight games and ten tackles are more production than the Packers have received from a second string OLB in eight games in years. He still needs to work on his recognition skills, but when he does diagnose quickly, he fights to set an edge. Enagbare may get his first chance to start against Detroit if Preston Smith cannot overcome his shoulder injury. How Enagbare plays when given a starter’s snap count will be an interesting game within the game. Just for a fun reference, Enagbare has already outperformed former Packer fifth round pick Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila in the seven games he played as a rookie.
Seventh Round:
Tariq Carpenter
Jonathan Ford
Rasheed Walker
Unfortunately, the rest of the Packer draft picks have not had sufficient time on the field to display their talents. Carpenter is listed as the third string strong safety. He has been active for two games but has not accumulated any stats. Walker is a backup to left tackle David Bakhtiari, but Tom and Jenkins would probably get the playing time ahead of him. Ford is listed as the third string nose tackle. The potential of all three is currently known only to the coaching staff.
While Walker has had his struggles, he has also been thrown into the fire. He has time to learn both the system and how to read and react to his keys. Olivadotti, his position coach, has 20 years of experience and helped De’Vondre Campbell reach All-Pro status last year. Only the coaching staff knows how much time they will give him to improve. Doubs will undoubtedly get ample opportunities to build on his break out game against the Bills. Tom must stay ready as Bakhtiari’s knee is one practice away from missing another game. The biggest question for the rest of the season surrounds Christian Watson. Will he be able to shake his injuries and contribute? If given playing time, can he make big catches or will the initial drop contribute to his spiral into another J’mon Moore. Only time and the Packers medical staff can answer that question that may be crucial to the Packers dwindling 2022 success.
Basically Bad Draft class nothing surprising. Gutekunst (see: INCOMPETENT) values these picks like Cadaver Thompson did, to only whiff time after time. That ass faces wont trade to get veteran talent, guys u know can play.
INSANITY: doing same thing over & over expected diff result. The NFL Flagship Franchise run by 3 Stooges
Read an article today on the Packer drafts since 2015. Wow, what a cluster. When you claim to build your team through the draft you absolutely have to do way better than the brain trust the Packers employ right now.
BROKEN!
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I don’t want to kick a dead horse in the head as far as the draft picks go. but i want to say this about the stats citing….. ” Doubs is on track to have the best Packer rookie wideout season since Rodgers joined the team.”
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It’s close….
Doubs isn’t the top rookie wr as far as attempts (so far), that’s Jennings
Don’t get me wrong, i like Doubs, especially when he makes those catches that remind me of Nelson.
The reason he could eventually have the best start, is because he might get the most targets of all the rookie receivers during that time. but he’ll have to get more in the next 8 games, than the previous 8
Again…the Packers almost always had at least a couple of veteran go to receivers. They didn’t have to rely on rookies. That isn’t the case this season.
If this season were 16 games…..to keep comparisons in perspective.
Doubs is on pace for 98 targets.
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James Jones had 80 targets his rookie year.
Jordy Nelson had 50 targets
Davante Adams had 66 targets.
Randall Cobb had 31 targets.
Greg Jennings was the outlier with 104 targets in 2006, but his catch rate was awful at 43.2%
Favre needed a #2 with Jennings after Driver, and he got it
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I wish Doubs well….it would be refreshing to have a player contribute on the field that was drafted after the 2nd round for once..
This writer is kinda delusional with Doubs, quote “His potential is All-Pro level”
Hey Paul, what about pick 259 in round 7, Samori Toure? They maybe, maybe might have stumbled upon a potentially good thing with this pick. He’s caught a couple balls and one was touchdown. He did look very good in the pre season (FWIW) and maybe he’s earning more time to prove himself on the field in the regular season.
What can it hurt, right? Right now I’d rather see Toure on the field over say, Amari Rodgers…
You make a great point Mitch
I plan on doing a piece specifically on the WR draftees after a couple more games. I felt like a breakdown of his one game wouldn’t do him justice, but I should definitely just stated that.
Looking at that picture of Christian Watson above….here i thought Kevin King looked frail….Damn.
I always said Kevin King looked like a Somali pirate dressed like a Packer. Now, you got me thinking.
I miss Kevin king leading their turnover celebrations after getting burned all game and not actually contributing to the turnover they were celebrating.
I miss watching King celebrating (as if he had something to do with it) when his receiver dropped a pass as King watched him 3 yards behind him.
Where did King wind up? What a bust he was. If I remember right? Think that was draft we passed on Dalvin Cook. Once again Packer Front Office fkd up. Whos the dingleberry in charge of scouting
King was drafted in 2017 by Big Ted.
But…as we have heard, Ted wasn’t fully capable of doing the job at that point with his ailment, but he was kept on by Murphy during those years…until the Board finally told Murphy to do his fucking job and replace Ted.
So in reality, that King pick could very well have been Gutes pick.
This season, King is costing the Packers 3 million in dead money
Gute re-signed King to a one year deal when Stokes was drafted.
It didn’t take long to see King sitting on the bench.
King is 27 (in his prime), the 33erd pick of the draft, but he’s sitting at home watching the games on Sunday.
That’s what 31 teams think of the Packers drafting Kevin King.
He’s 6’3″ 179lbs….always injured….shocking right?.
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Murphy once said…”When Ted wants to retire, he’ll let me know.”
In other words, no matter how bad Ted was getting, no matter how the team was regressing.
Murphy wasn’t going to lift a finger.
I mention this because we always hear how the Packers do what’s in the best interest of the Green Bay Packers.
I call bullshit.
The same thing was said by Gute after he was questioned about drafting Love.
Which, of course…i also called bullshit at the time.
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Let me tell you…being right almost all the time is hard G D work people. 😎
“While it is still way too early to estimate the 2022 Packer draft class productivity in three years, we can at least review the impact each player has had on the 2022 Packer team.”
Why do we have to wait three years to evaluate the draft? The numbers are already there and even shown in the article. This is a bad draft. Quay Walker doesn’t impact the game in any way while Lloyd has already won a defensive player of the month award. Walker was the wrong move. Wyatt has only played 57 snaps through 8 games, so about 6 quarters of football. Christian Watson is another story. His body wasn’t ready for the NFL. I don’t blame any of the struggles on him. He just wasn’t ready. The Packers should’ve let another team experiment with a project receiver. This team needs to stop drafting projects and that might solve half of the drafting problems.
Unfortunately…Gute learned mostly from Ted, most likely in the 2nd half of Ted’s career.
It seems that Gute is trying to “outsmart” all the other GM’s by taking projects too early in the draft.
If there is one thing that we see in scouting and draft reports, is that the Packers consistently take players higher in the draft than they have to.
This guy gets it……
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KenEllis
October 31, 2022 at 12:05 pm
You are presuming that Gutey only had the opportunity to replace Davante (and MVS) AFTER they departed last spring.
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A proactive GM would have been aware that “last dance” Adams was not going to return to GB in 2022 and that he was not going to re-sign his one and only WR draftee who has done anything in MVS, but alas Gutey has alternatively ignored the WR position and utterly failed to add talent to it … FOR 5 YEARS.
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Signing Hammy Watkins to pretend to put a bandage on a gaping wound is what bad teams do when they are desperate to project an image that they are doing something.
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The only folks surprised that Watkins sucks are those who drank the Green & Gold kool aid.
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At least, with articles like these, Gute’s margin for error in deceiving the masses is dwindling.
It’s GAMEDAY BITCHES….lets get on it!!
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Holy shit.
Aaron Rodgers. Hit a guy in the face, interception. Nice play call at the end of the next drive, throw the ball 3 yards short for an interception. And yet we’re going to have to read over and over how its Gutenkunts fault that the Packers didn’t spend money they didn’t have (because of Rodgers) to get Rodgers a better receiver.
You’re bitching it was an interception, I’m bitching that we’re throwing a pass to a fucking injured LEFT TACKLE after receivers ran the wrong routes multiple times including the end zone fade. Now Jaire’s fucking off on the sideline, more penalties, completely blown coverage by our D in the end zone. What I’m taking away from these past two weeks more than anything is how poorly coached these players and this team is.
Let’s tally this ups so far. A pass off a helmet for an INT. A short pass for another interception in the end zone. A sure TD pass to an open Toure short armed. Another interception that should never have been thrown and was off.
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This is the worst quarterback play I’ve seen since maybe the Favre game against the Rams in the playoffs where he threw 6 Picks.
What are WE DOING!!!! Running OT who never can stay on field & do his own job.on pass route?????? LaFluer wants him “Doubtful” rest of season. HOW many more bubble screens for neg yds, we gonna run. They dont FIRE this guy soon, start carrying flaming torches up to the castle.
Would love see signs at Lambeau this week callin for LaFluer & Guttys jobs. National game, perfect time to do it!
Wow, this team is such a mess. Scoreless against the 1-6 Lions halfway through the third quarter. Pathetic. Why are they going for it on 4th and goal in a scoreless game in the first quarter? KICK THE FUCKING FIELD GOAL. Instead they try to be cute by throwing a pass to the left tackle?!? Speaking of which, everyone talks about Bahktiari being an all pro tackle just as much as they talk about the size of AJ Dillons legs. What has Bahktiari done the last two years??? Nothing. What does the size of AJ Dillons legs mean for this team? Nothing.
You know who led the game in rushing? Jamal Williams. You know who was second in rushing? Aaron Rodgers. You know who had zero fumbles with the Packers during the entire four years he was in Green Bay? Jamal Williams. Good thing Gute is adamant about drafting for positions that don’t need to be filled. Never mind those gaping wholes elsewhere. Lets pick up another QB and RB even though those positions are set. Brilliant!
How about that “roughing the kicker” call? Jaire brushed the side of the guys leg. Total bulshit. Or how about that “roughing the passer” call on Enagbare? Welcome to the NFE. National Football Entertainment. And then they call in the network goon to come explain it off. GTFOH with that BS. Deacon Jones used to sucker punch dudes in the side of the head, and then they would sell highlight videos of it. Now you can’t brush the side of a dudes a helmet with your pinky finger without getting a 15 yard penalty. Maybe they should start requiring kickers to shave their legs. Otherwise it will be considered roughing the tackler. Fucking pansies.
Must be nice for Detroit that they had two rookie tight ends catch TD’s and another defensive rookie come up with two interceptions. The Packers rookies can’t stay on the damn field. Just send the whole team to the medical tent and call it a day. You know who should have stayed on the injury list? Hammy Watkins. Why is he never in the right spot? Toure is lucky that fumble went out of bounds. I don’t know why they had to show the replay so many times. The defender was clearly out of bounds before he had possession.
Then there is Rodgers. Throwing passes low. Playing with a bum thumb. Trying to do his best Favre impression with 3 interceptions. How long before he starts sending dick pics to Davante? If he hasn’t already. The offense shouldn’t look this terrible. 9 points on the day. Puke….
Next week the Cowboys come into Green Bay. Unless a miracle happens, Dallas is going to give the Packers their sixth loss in a row and McCarthy is going to eat it up like a big ol’boat of gravy.
“How long before he starts sending dick pics to Davante? If he hasn’t already.”
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C’mon man…really?
Lol, just trying to make light of a frustrating situation. The joke was meant to touch on Favre’s interceptions/ text message fiasco as well as how bad this offense is doing and how badly it needs a competent #1 WR. Hence trying to get Davante back. It was not meant as a serious gay diss that you would see from all the AR haters that want to start shit, although I see it can clearly be taken that way. Oh well, can’t “un”-say it now. This offense blows.
The Packers are mathematically still in the playoff race.
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Dallas is coming into Green Bay next week for a good old fashioned Lambeau Field Frozen Tundra beat down!!
Used to get those games from Hillbilly Favre 6-7 times yr. Rodgers stunk up joint, no doubt, but that was the worst I ever seen him play. Lets run an oft injured, slow as iceberg OT in endzone for 6. LaFLUER has got to Go!!!! No one else likes chasing pts like LaFluer down 8-6, instead of kicking extra point with 6min left in 3rd qtr goes for 2, which we never convert, now done by 2. Detroit scores, now were down by 2 scores. FKG IDIOT.
Refs are killing us every week. 2 BULLSHIT calls, Alexander on kicker, & Ingabare roughing passer. Hoe many games this year has D stopped people on 3rd down & keep drive alive by grabbing in secondary? 2022 is over
Some may think, and be right, that Douglas is more effective on the perimeter than in the slot.
The difference is he had more interceptions filling in for Alexander last season.
With that said, Douglas is a very aggressive player, he gets very handsy, and he’ll get called for that. Plus his unsportsmanlike conduct penalties don’t help.
But that’s one of the Packers smaller problems.
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I’ve never subscribed to bitching about the refs. I’ve never seen a ref throw 3 interceptions. If your team lost the game, your team lost the game, bitching about refs is for Bears and viking fans, it’s the teams fault, not the refs. Sans the last play of the game on a bad call.
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Rodgers might have played the worst game i’ve ever seen him play.
I understand that if your a Rodgers hater, that isn’t allowed, he can’t have one of those, not in a month, or 14 seasons.
Rodgers haters/viking fans unite!!! You are going to have a gleeful week!!
I’m happy for you…because it gives you something to do each day.
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Now, let the McCarthy/Rodgers stupid shit talk begin!!
you’re going to have a gleeful week
Dude I’m not a Rodgers hater. I back him all the way. Not sure who your talking too?
Hey we got our 1 play out of Watson, dudes on a roll. I catch & in blue tent
Looks to me, most of the team wants to go into the Tent than on field. What kind of conditioning does Lafluer promote??? Real blocks of Granite we have.
The Detroit Lions give up 148 per game in rushing yards.
2nd worst run defense in the league.
Why is it, Jones and Quadzilla can only gain 59 yards on 20 carries?
Not sure why Kylin Hill didn’t get more carries.
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Yes, Rodgers had a shitty game, but then again, he led the team in rushing yards on 4 carries.