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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 360447" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The jsonline story I linked earlier in this thread says the Packers have 66 veteran players who finished on the 53-man roster or IR. They signed 9 street FAs who spent time on their practice squad in '10. They have 9 draft choices in the upcoming draft and "<span style="color: black">McCarthy also said the team would like to sign their normal complement of about 12 rookie free agents after the draft." (Of course a CBA will have to be in place for that to happen.) If Jolly gets reinstated, that would be 97 players. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If the owners get the 18 games they want, the rosters will have to expand but under the previous CBA, there would only be room for 53 players and the 7 extra for the PS would have to go through waivers first. So that's 44 "too many" players for the active roster and after keeping an additional 7 that no other team wants for their active roster, that's still 37 too many. Under the previous rules they could only have 80 signed before the cut downs start. Even if they don't sign one UDFA, that's 5 too many for an 80-man roster. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I don't expect a mega trade up ala Matthews in '08 but as I posted previously, the trend has been Thompson selecting fewer players in the draft (I believe) because there's not as much room on the roster as there was previously. So in answer to GBPack2010's post I would say Thompson traded up in each of the last three drafts - twice into the 3rd round and once of course into the first. He apparently didn't think the talent they targeted would be there at their picks. And in answer to timdykeman's post I'd point out my paragraph above - how much sense does it make to add even more players for whom there just isn't room? </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Would anyone disagree that the Packers have their deepest roster going into this year's draft? I saw one story which said the top talent tier in this draft is about 22 players and the next tier is about 46 players. Of course we don't know how the Packers view the different tiers in this draft class. But I think it makes sense for Thompson to continue the trend by trading up into what they view as the top tier or to move lower picks to get multiple picks in the next tier. Even if that process starts by trading down a few picks out of #32, as timdykeman suggests. My fantasy is hoping Thompson can move Barnett in one such trade up. But I don't think it's unrealistic to think Thompson will make extra selections in the second, third, and/or fourth rounds targeting players rather than trading down for 10 or more picks as he did when he took over an aging and shallow roster. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 360447, member: 4300"] [FONT=Verdana]The jsonline story I linked earlier in this thread says the Packers have 66 veteran players who finished on the 53-man roster or IR. They signed 9 street FAs who spent time on their practice squad in '10. They have 9 draft choices in the upcoming draft and "[COLOR=black]McCarthy also said the team would like to sign their normal complement of about 12 rookie free agents after the draft." (Of course a CBA will have to be in place for that to happen.) If Jolly gets reinstated, that would be 97 players. [/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]If the owners get the 18 games they want, the rosters will have to expand but under the previous CBA, there would only be room for 53 players and the 7 extra for the PS would have to go through waivers first. So that's 44 "too many" players for the active roster and after keeping an additional 7 that no other team wants for their active roster, that's still 37 too many. Under the previous rules they could only have 80 signed before the cut downs start. Even if they don't sign one UDFA, that's 5 too many for an 80-man roster. [/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Verdana]I don't expect a mega trade up ala Matthews in '08 but as I posted previously, the trend has been Thompson selecting fewer players in the draft (I believe) because there's not as much room on the roster as there was previously. So in answer to GBPack2010's post I would say Thompson traded up in each of the last three drafts - twice into the 3rd round and once of course into the first. He apparently didn't think the talent they targeted would be there at their picks. And in answer to timdykeman's post I'd point out my paragraph above - how much sense does it make to add even more players for whom there just isn't room? [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Would anyone disagree that the Packers have their deepest roster going into this year's draft? I saw one story which said the top talent tier in this draft is about 22 players and the next tier is about 46 players. Of course we don't know how the Packers view the different tiers in this draft class. But I think it makes sense for Thompson to continue the trend by trading up into what they view as the top tier or to move lower picks to get multiple picks in the next tier. Even if that process starts by trading down a few picks out of #32, as timdykeman suggests. My fantasy is hoping Thompson can move Barnett in one such trade up. But I don't think it's unrealistic to think Thompson will make extra selections in the second, third, and/or fourth rounds targeting players rather than trading down for 10 or more picks as he did when he took over an aging and shallow roster. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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