The Green Bay Packers have toyed with the idea of using rookie Tariq Carpenter as a linebacker, but he’s impressed the team with his size and movement skills early on.
“Looking at him in rookie minicamp, he really can move, for as big as he is. That, to me, was the biggest impression he made on me, just his movement skills for his size,” safeties coach Ryan Downard said Wednesday.
The Packers used the 228th overall pick on Carpenter, who stands 6-3 and weighs 230 pounds – far bigger than most traditional safeties – but ran the 40-yard dash in 4.