How did Packers do in draft value relative to 2025 consensus board?
The Green Bay Packers selected eight players in the 2025 NFL draft. How did Brian Gutekunst and the Packers do in terms of value this year? It's a tough question to answer. Maybe impossible.
Value is an important part of the draft process. An understanding of the board is vital to judging how teams went about maximizing value during the draft.
However, establishing true "value" is incredibly difficult. Thirty-two teams each have a different draft board, and there is no consensus big board for all teams. Teams scout differently and have different schemes, coaching staffs and needs. The best we can do is base value on the consensus of the information available. The "wisdom of the crowd" can help.Arif Hasan of Wide Left Football creates the go-to consensus board, which ranks the top 300 players in the draft class based on 101 different big boards from draft analysts. As Hasan says, "the consensus of these experts does a better predictive job than individual experts."
Here are the Packers' picks in the 2025 draft, their consensus rank, their pick number and the difference between the two. This is how we'll establish value.
WR Matthew Golden
Consensus rank: 24
Pick number: 23
Difference: -1
All good here. Golden came off the board right where he was expected to go.
OL Anthony Belton
Consensus rank: 91Pick number: 54Difference: -37
A potentially big "reach." The consensus board saw Belton as a late third-rounder. The Packers took him midway through the second.
WR Savion Williams
Consensus rank: 97Pick number: 87Difference: -10
All good here. The board saw Williams as a third-rounder, and that's where the Packers got him.
DE Barryn Sorrell
Consensus rank: 134Pick number: 124Difference: -10
Like Golden and Williams, nothing egregious here. The Packers picked Sorrell right where he was expected to go.
DE/LB Collin Oliver
Consensus rank: 212Pick number: 159Difference: -53
A bigger "reach" than Belton, per the board. Oliver missed 10 games to injury during his final season and is a bit of a tweener, which likely pushed him down on the consensus board. The Packers think he can be a designated pass-rusher and play some off-ball linebacker, too.
DL Warren Brinson
Consensus rank: 241Pick number: 198Difference: -43
The board saw Brinson as a seventh-rounder. The Packers took him in the sixth.
CB Micah Robinson
Consensus rank: N/APick number: 237Difference: -63 (based on top 300 players)
Robinson wasn't ranked in the top 300 on the consensus board. He wasn't ranked on the 712-player consensus board at Mock Draft Database, either. The Packers brought Robinson (who played one season at Tulane after four season at FCS Furman) in for a visit and liked the player. He's small and lacking elite athleticism, which is almost certainly why he was overlooked as a draftable player.
OL John Williams
Consensus rank: 274Pick number: 250Difference: -24
Looks about right. Williams was a late seventh-rounder or priority UDFA on the board. The Packers got him with one of the last picks in the draft.
Overall
In terms of the consensus board, the Packers technically "reached" for every single player in the eight-player draft class. The total value of the reaches was -241 points, a considerable amount. The big reaches came in the second round with Belton and on Day 3 with Oliver, Brinson and Robinson.
Why does this matter? Big reaches usually don't work out, especially in Green Bay -- although Evan Williams from last year sticks out as a potentially great example of a "reach" working in the Packers' favor. Other big reaches from last year's class include Ty'Ron Hopper, who hardly played as a rookie, and Travis Glover, who will be fighting to stick on the roster as a second-year player.
The Packers didn't reach in the first round, which is a good sign. Past reaches in the first include Darnell Savage, Eric Stokes and Quay Walker. Golden wasn't a reach at all via the consensus board.
All teams have players they like more than consensus on Day 3. It's a crapshoot past the fourth round, and teams take fliers on traits and players they've done the most work on pre-draft.
If there's a true complaint from the Packers draft class from a consensus board viewpoint, it's Belton. He was a popular player for teams pre-draft, and the Packers see him as a big, athletic offensive lineman who can play four positions at the next level. But he's also 24, played six seasons at the collegiate level and might eventually have to move inside to guard. Taking him at No. 54 looks like the most questionable pick of the three days.
Also, the Packers reportedly signed Georgia defensive tackle Nazir Stackhouse and Kentucky linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson after the draft. Stackhouse was the No. 225 player on the consensus board; Dumas-Johnson was No. 243. So the Packers added some "value" in college free agency post-draft.
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