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NFL draft preview: Cornerback an obvious need for Packers

GREEN BAY — If first-year general manager Brian Gutekunst wants to use the No. 14 overall pick in the NFL draft — or something higher, if he decides to move up — on a cornerback who can help fix the team’s problematic pass defense, he might have to go against the team’s long-established height requirement and take his chances.

Ever since Pro Football Hall of Fame general manager Ron Wolf infamously passed on the University of Wisconsin’s Troy Vincent (6-foot-1) in favor of Florida State’s Terrell Buckley (5-10) with the fifth overall pick in the 1992 draft, the Packers have had an unwritten rule about not taking cornerbacks shorter than 5-11.