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Last season when starting safety Atari Bigby got injured in Week 1 of the regular season, safeties coach Darren Perry admitted the defensive staff was scrambling a bit to figure out how to man the position without adequate depth.
Hopefully the selection of safety Morgan Burnett in the third round of Friday night's NFL Draft helps to fix that.
"No question about us being thin last year," Perry said. "When we lost Atari that first game it hurt us a little bit."
Burnett was impressive enough that for the third time in three years, General Manager Ted Thompson traded up to for a defensive player he had targeted. This time Thompson gave up his fourth-round pick (No. 122 overall) to the Philadelphia Eagles in order to swap third-rounders and move up 15 spots, from No. 86 to No. 71, to nab Burnett, an early entry junior out of Georgia Tech.
Burnett's all-around game is what attracted the Packers to him. He's not a one-trick pony as a safety, like some who..
Source: Packers.com
