Green Bay Packers second-round draft pick Edgerrin Cooper solidified his top-of-the-class status at the East West all-star game.
GREEN BAY, Wis. – With the 45th pick of the 2024 NFL Draft, Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst had the choice of every linebacker in the class.“This is a how-you-build-them-in-a-lab type of linebacker for the NFL,” said Eric Galko, who as director of football operations and player personnel for the East-West Shrine Bowl got an up-close-and-personal look at Cooper during the week leading up to the annual all-star game.
“He’s one of the more physically impressive linebackers, even from the last couple years,” Galko said. “He’s got, obviously, the size. He’s a tremendously impressive athlete. He can come downhill, finish, play in space with control. He’s not just a guy that comes downhill. He can come downhill, stop, start, adjust, make a play when a running back bounces outside of him.”
“And then in coverage, he was really strong this year, too. He was one of the best off-ball coverage linebackers in the country. Part of that’s because he’s just such a good athlete and can really stop, start and change direction, and he’s still getting better there. So, he really is a three-pronged, perfect linebacker body-type.”
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