Packers Select Elusive Receiver in New Seven-Round NFL Mock Draft

Missouri Tigers wide receiver Luther Burden III / Butch Dill-Imagn ImagesGREEN BAY, Wis. – Do the Green Bay Packers need to upgrade their receiver corps?

“We need the guy that’s proven to be a No. 1 already,” running back Josh Jacobs said at the Super Bowl.

The supply of “proven” No. 1 receivers available this offseason won’t keep up with the demand. So, the Packers could have to look to the 2025 NFL Draft.

In a seven-round mock draft for Pro Football Network, the Packers selected Missouri receiver Luther Burden III with the 23rd overall pick.

Wrote PFN’s Ian Cummings: “(Burden’s) 2024 campaign wasn’t quite as productive as expected, but he still has WR1 tools, and Josh Jacobs believes Green…