Packers have plenty of new players for new defensive scheme

The Green Bay Packers added plenty of new faces to a defense that has a new coordinator and a new scheme this year. The Packers are switching from a 3-4 defense to a 4-3 scheme under new coordinator Jeff Hafley, the former Boston College coach who took over for the fired Joe Barry. "The physicality that these guys showed on tape, their ability to run and hit, that leaves us very optimistic," coach Matt LaFleur said. The Packers loaded up at safety — their biggest weakness during a 2023 season in which they went 9-8 and reached the divisional round of the playoffs — by selecting Georgia's Javon Bullard in the second round (58th overall pick), Oregon's Evan Williams in the fourth (111th) and Oregon State's Kitan Oladapo in the fifth (169th).