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Scout Extras: Inside Green Bay's gambles

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Scout Extras: Inside Green Bay's gambles

The first post-Aaron Rodgers draft has concluded. Here's what the personnel men said about Colby Wooden, Sean Clifford and all nine of the Packers' Day 3 draft picks. Is there a surprise starter?

Bob McGinn
Apr 30, 2023
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Here’s what personnel people told Bob McGinn before the draft about the Green Bay Packers’ Day 3 picks.

Subscribers can access his entire 39th Annual NFL Draft Series right here:

  • Part 9, ST: The best specialists are Michigan-made

  • Part 8, DB: These corners possess (historic) speed to burn

  • Part 7, LB: Iowa’s Jack Campbell is the standard

  • Part 6, Edge: Why the Clemson Curse 'scares the shit' out of the NFL

  • Part 5, DL: Does Jalen Carter love football?

  • Part 4, RB: 'There’s nothing he can’t do'

  • Part 3, QB: Bryce Young has the 'S2' advantage

  • Part 2, OL: Buyer Beware

  • Part 1, WR/TE: Hallelujah, it's the Year of the Tight End

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  • The Atlanta Falcons have stepped into the ring

  • Lamar Jackson and the Ravens give hope to humanity

  • The mystery of Lukas Van Ness: Also, full scouting reports on new Bills TE Dalton Kincaid and Giants CB Deonte Banks. Hear what the scouts think.

  • Packers go wild for tight ends, Giants steal Jalin Hyatt, Bills add to O-Line: Could Tucker Kraft, a man with “Gronkowski” traits, be the steal of the draft?

COLBY WOODEN, DT, AUBURN

  • Rd. 4/Pk. 116.

  • Height: 6-4.

  • Weight: 283.

  • 40: 4.82.

  • Wonderlic: 18.

  • Hometown: Lawrenceville, Ga.

  • Fact/stat: Fourth-year junior, three-year starter. Arms were 33 ¾ inches, hands were 10 3/8 inches. Finished with 152 tackles (30 for loss) and 15 sacks.

NFC scout: “I’m not sold on him. Excellent, excellent kid. I think he’s a 5-technique but you’ll have to try him both ways to see what he can do. I look at someone like him as fourth round-plus.”

AFC scout: “We all saw him as a 5-technique. He could also play some 3-technique and rush inside if you needed him to. He’s got some developmental upside. He’s a 4i or a 5-technique. He’s probably fifth round. He did run 4.8 and there’s pretty good stuff on film.”

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McGinn has covered the NFL continuously since 1979. Won Bill Nunn Memorial Award in 2011 for long and distinguished coverage of pro football.
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