That the emergence of the Green Bay Packers’ young wide receivers revealed itself once again in Los Angeles against a lauded defensive backfield was promising. That it happened just a matter days before Stephen A. Smith ripped Packers brass for not providing Aaron Rodgers with more help is humorous. And while Smith may have been correct as Green Bay failed to address the weaponry of the Packers’ star quarterback at times over the past decade, he is wrong to overlook the team’s pass-catching rookie additions of 2018.
While new general manager Brian Gutekunst led Green Bay into uncharted waters of spending large in free agency to bring tight end Jimmy Graham into the fold, he, like Ted Thompson before him, also tried to solve the receiving position through the draft.