BREAKING: Packers select LB Isaiah McDuffie with 220nd pick

Analysis:

The Packers added two young linebackers — Kamal Martin in the fifth round and Krys Barnes signed as UDFA — last year, and Ty Summers in the seventh round the year before. Once again, Green Bay has used a late round draft pick to address the middle linebacker position. This time the Packers select 6’1″, 227 lb. Isaiah McDuffie out of Boston College.

McDuffie was the 2016 New York State Defensive Player of the Year at Bennett High School in Buffalo and stayed close to home, attending Boston College. What McDuffie lacked in size, he made up for in sheer will. He is described as the prototypical ‘coach’s son’ — smart, tough and relentless. He used these skills to amass 233 tackles…