NFL Draft: Why the Packers didn’t take a defensive tackle earlier

One question I continue to hear from Green Bay Packers fans is why the team didn’t do more to address the defensive tackle or cornerback position earlier in the draft. I’ll touch on the cornerback position later this week, but I want to focus on defensive tackle today.

I’m not here to carry water for general manager Brian Gutekunst. There have been plenty of Packers picks I have disagreed with over the years. Ty’Ron Hopper, Colby Wooden, Sean Cliford, Anders Carlson and Amari Rodgers are a couple, to just name a few.

With that being said, I understand not hitting defensive tackle early on in this draft, considering what happened on draft day.

Day 1

There was a belief that one of Kenneth Grant,…