The safety position is the biggest roster need that the Green Bay Packers have this offseason, but general manager Brian Gutekunst believes the draft as well as free agency will provide them with the opportunity to add the players that they need.
“Initially pretty solid at safety, as far as the draft class goes and then the free-agency class as well,” said Gutekunst on Thursday. “We’re going to have to add numbers there, for sure.”
The Packers aren’t only in need of upgrades at the position but they also need depth. After taking a Band-Aid approach at the position last offseason, which included letting Darnell Savage play out his fifth-year option, along with signing Rudy Ford and Jonathan Owens to one-year deals, the only safeties under contract at the moment are Benny Sapp, Anthony Johnson, and Zayne Anderson.