Buzz on Packers’ first-round interest in Notre Dame TE Michael Mayer

Notre Dame tight end Michael Mayer could become the first player at his position to come off the draft board when the Green Bay Packers make their first-round pick at No. 15 overall on Thursday night.

Albert Breer of SI.com connected Mayer, whom he calls the “draft’s best two-way tight end,” with the Packers in the first round.

“In a really good tight end year, this could be where the first one comes off the board,” Breer wrote Monday. “And while Utah’s Dalton Kincaid has generated the most buzz, the name I’ve heard here the most is the draft’s best two-way tight end: Notre Dame’s Michael Mayer.”

Breer pointed to Mayer’s versatility, experience and intangibles as reasons why the Packers would…