The Green Bay Packers addressed the defense over and over again in Chad Reuter’s mock draft at NFL.com.
The Green Bay Packers need to fortify their defensive line with the change to a 3-4 defense. That position was the starting point inGreen Bay’s second-round choice at No. 52 overall was Oklahoma defensive tackle Gracen Halton.
He’s only 6-foot-3 and 293 pounds, so lacks the heft to beef up the nose tackle position. However, with 4.82 speed in the 40, he could become a playmaker.Halton started 10 games in his college career. In 2025, he played in 13 games with seven starts and had 3.5 sacks and a career-high seven tackles for losses to earn second-team all-conference.. “A guy that’s enthusiastic, that likes to make plays, that’s got to make plays. Off the field, they’re getting a guy with a good heart who loves to make friends. When it’s time to work, it’s time to work. When it’s time to have fun, it’s time to have fun.”“He’s an energetic, gap-to-gap rusher who can threaten guards on their edges or play his role as an effective twister,” he wrote in part. “Finding the right scheme fit will be critical for Halton in the NFL.” “Halton is a traditional penetrating 3-technique that can win at the snap with quickness and hand use, overwhelming his opponent on the way to the passer, but his lack of bulk, play recognition, and a secondary pass rush will prevent him from becoming more than a rotational depth piece,” SIS scout Ben Hrkach wrote.After signing 6-foot-3 cornerback Benjamin St-Juste in free agency, the third-round pick was Washington’s Tacario Davis, a 6-foot-4 prospect with Washington defensive back Tacario Davis during the NFL Scouting Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium. | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images During his final season, PFF charged Davis with a 53.6 percent catch rate with one touchdown allowed and two interceptions. The 15 completions gave up just 146 yards. Sports Info Solutions charged him with a 43 percent catch rate, with the 12 completions giving up 123 yards. “Tacario Davis projects as a No. 4 cornerback who will exclusively play on the outside in a press-man or zone scheme,” is the start of. “He has a very long, lanky frame that allows him to disrupt receivers, but it also hinders his ability to move fluidly.” In the fourth round, the pick was Auburn’s Keyron Crawford, who would give the Packers a crowded edge room with Micah Parsons, Lukas Van Ness, Barryn Sorrell, Collin Oliver and Brenton Cox. However, Parsons won’t be ready to start the season, Van Ness could be entering his final season under contract and Oliver couldn’t get on the field due to injuries. After two seasons at Arkansas State, Crawford (6-4, 253_ wrapped up his career with two seasons at Auburn. After a quiet 2024 season, he had five sacks and 9.5 tackles for losses in 2025. “Crawford feels undersized at times on tape, especially once bigger bodies latch him, but he explodes off the ball,” Brugler wrote. “His effort consistently pops as a pass rusher, run defender and when dropping in coverage.” “He’s twitchy and rushes with ideal energy as a hungry quarterback-hunter,” Zierlein wrote in part. “However, he might benefit from dialing back his constant acceleration and becoming more intentional with his rush. Crawford has special teams and situational rush value now, but his best football is still to come.”“I wanted to go into the SEC as a freshman, but schools were scared because I didn’t have the experience to come in at a Power 5 and compete,”Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.
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