Will the Packers grab a WR in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft?
Yahoo Sports' Matt Harmon and Liz Loza discuss the Packers' need at WR, including why LSU's Justin Jefferson would be a great fit.
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LIZ LOZA: We have to imagine that Green Bay is going to draft a wide receiver in the first round, right?
MATT HARMON: Yeah. They're likely to draft a wide receiver in round one, maybe round two, maybe they even double up on the position because it's just really not in that good of a shape. But even then, it's like I still think that Devante Adams could just, kinda like the logic last year, push to lead the league in targets with so many unproven guys behind it.
LIZ LOZA: Aaron Rodgers wants a reliable, sure handed, wide receiver, and as much as I would like to see this team take a speedster because I think that, you know, the MDS project did not work out. You made the point last week that Allen Lazard ain't it, despite the Thanksgiving invitation, right?
Devin Funchess is far from fast. I'd like to see a speedster, I'm just not sure-- like listen, Henry Ruggs isn't falling to the Packers, and that's the best like speed based ball tracker I think you're going to find. So Justin Jefferson, who's just sure handed,
MATT HARMON: Love this guy.
LIZ LOZA: You can just-- right? Like, you can put him in. He's a strategic number two, a la Tyler Boyd. Let him do his job, and you know, some people-- neither Erica nor myself, and I'm assuming not you-- have comped him to Devante Adams, and so there's like a 2.0 situation, which could work there, as well.
MATT HARMON: He reminds me so much of AJ Brown in like the way that I think they're just both such clean prospects. And you know, it's funny. Like, we spent all this time, Liz, you know, leading up to last year's draft talking about AJ Brown is this next big-- you know, the next great big slot receiver, and he didn't even really play that position as a rookie. I just went back and reviewed him for Reception Perception.
This guy's pretty much out there playing like traditional number one x receiver, and while that's not the way Jefferson was used in his final year at college-- neither was AJ Brown-- I think that's a position that Jefferson can play because he's that good of, like, an interior in breaking route runner, like the digs, the slants, and that's primarily the routes that AJ Brown was most successful on as a rookie. So I think there's just some-- not from like a pure player perspective, even like a build-- they're not really-- they're not really built the same way, but just from like a utilization standpoint where I'm not going to limit him to just being a big slot receiver. But I think he's just one of those guys that I think could-- like, if he fell to Green Bay, that would be perfect.
