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Yahoo
07-05-2025
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Green Bay Packers legend Dave Robinson greeted fans throughout NFL draft week
DE Barryn Sorrell joins 'The Insiders' four days after being drafted by Packers in 2025 Green Bay Packers defensive lineman Barryn Sorrell joins "The Insiders" to relive and reflect on his experience at the 2025 NFL Draft.
USA Today
02-05-2025
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- USA Today
Packers announce signing of 6 of 8 2025 draft picks on first day of rookie minicamp
Packers announce signing of 6 of 8 2025 draft picks on first day of rookie minicamp The Green Bay Packers announced the signing of six of the team's eight picks in the 2025 NFL draft on Friday, the first day of rookie minicamp. The Packers signed third-round pick Savion Williams, fourth-round pick Barryn Sorrell, fifth-round pick Collin Oliver, sixth-round pick Warren Brinson and seventh-round picks Micah Robinson and John Williams. The only unsigned players as of Friday are first-round pick Matthew Golden and second-round pick Anthony Belton. Oliver and Brinson were reported earlier Friday. Contract estimates based on the rookie wage scale from Over the Cap: Savion Williams: four years, $6.29 million, $1.21 million signing bonus Barryn Sorrell: four years, $5.14 million, $941K signing bonus Collin Oliver: four years, $4.60 million, $406K signing bonus Warren Brinson: four years, $4.42 million, $226K signing bonus Micah Robinson: four years, $4.31 million, $113K signing bonus John Williams: four years, $4.30 million, $101K signing bonus Because contracts are decided based on draft position, both Golden and Belton will be expected to sign soon enough. The Packers have a rookie pool of roughly $10.4 million in 2025. The total cap numbers of the eight draft picks are expected to be $3.72 million, per Over the Cap. The Packers also announced the signing of 10 undrafted free agents on Friday.
USA Today
29-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Green Bay Packers 2025 fourth-round pick: DE Barryn Sorrell
Green Bay Packers 2025 fourth-round pick: DE Barryn Sorrell The Green Bay Packers selected Texas defensive end Barryn Sorrell in the fourth round (No. 124 overall) of the 2025 NFL draft. Profile Height: 6-3 Weight: 256 Age: 22 From: New Orleans, LA College profile Breakdown: Experienced (49 games, 40 starts at Texas) and athletic (9.31 RAS) with the physical, tone-setting playstyle the Packers want in a three-down edge player. Steady, solid player who didn't have big dips in performance week to week. Produced 49 pressures, 11.0 tackles for loss and 6.0 sacks last season. Finished career with 25.5 tackles for loss and 15.0 sacks. High character, high energy player and a leader for the once again dominant Texas program. Lacks ideal length for an edge rusher but plays fast and strong. Got reps inside and was effective on stunts and twists up front. Was voted the American team's top defensive lineman during the Senior Bowl. Scouting reports Unpacking Future Packers: Texas DE Barryn Sorrell Dane Brugler's scouting report: "A three-year starter at Texas, Sorrell lined up primarily on the edge (five-/six-technique) in defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski's front. A dependable player over his 40 starts in Austin, he showed gradual improvements each season and didn't receive enough credit in 2024 for his impact on Texas' third-ranked defense. As a pass rusher, Sorrell flashes bully hands and an aggressive snatch attack (which became his signature move), locking out and pulling the balance of blockers away from them (led Texas with 49 pressures in 2024, despite finishing fourth on the team in sacks). He is relentless in the run game, but he will lose contain against cutback runs and needs to play with better gear-down to eliminate missed tackles in pursuit. Overall, Sorrell passes the eye test and the foundation of his game is power, which sets up different ways for him to win, although his average short-area athleticism might limit the frequency of those wins against NFL blockers. His makeup and motor will give him a chance to carve out a role for a 4-3 scheme." Lance Zierlein's scouting report: "Sorrell's measurables and speed won't be eye-catching, but he's very consistent and plays with good technique. He can play up or down, but might be targeted as a 3-4 outside 'backer due to a lack of length. He plays with adequate power at the point and can work around blocks and into the backfield. Sorrell's rush lacks speed and power but he wins with his hands and has an above-average feel for creating entry points with positioning and body turn. He doesn't have high-end traits, but he's productive and reliable. Sorrell could become an average starter in time." They said it: "If you were to open a dictionary and see the definition of a football player, it would be him. Incredibly impressed with the way he plays, the rugged style, physicality, but then also who he is. The guy, the passion, energy he plays with, there's a lot to very football strong. Can take on the double team. Can play the tight end. Can play the open side against the tackle. And he has can play on all three downs. His style of play matches what we want to do." -- Director of football operations Milt Hendrickson New uniform: TBD Sorrell wore No. 88 at Texas, a non-traditional number for an edge rusher. No. 88 is currently worn by tight end Luke Musgrave in Green Bay. Sorrell wore No. 4 in high school and at the Senior Bowl, but that number is retired. RAS card Player highlights
Yahoo
29-04-2025
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Green Bay Packers 2025 fourth-round pick: DE Barryn Sorrell
The Green Bay Packers selected Texas defensive end Barryn Sorrell in the fourth round (No. 124 overall) of the 2025 NFL draft. Profile Height: 6-3 Weight: 256 Age: 22 From: New Orleans, LA College profile Breakdown: Experienced (49 games, 40 starts at Texas) and athletic (9.31 RAS) with the physical, tone-setting playstyle the Packers want in a three-down edge player. Steady, solid player who didn't have big dips in performance week to week. Produced 49 pressures, 11.0 tackles for loss and 6.0 sacks last season. Finished career with 25.5 tackles for loss and 15.0 sacks. High character, high energy player and a leader for the once again dominant Texas program. Lacks ideal length for an edge rusher but plays fast and strong. Got reps inside and was effective on stunts and twists up front. Was voted the American team's top defensive lineman during the Senior Bowl. Scouting reports Unpacking Future Packers: Texas DE Barryn Sorrell Advertisement Dane Brugler's scouting report: "A three-year starter at Texas, Sorrell lined up primarily on the edge (five-/six-technique) in defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski's front. A dependable player over his 40 starts in Austin, he showed gradual improvements each season and didn't receive enough credit in 2024 for his impact on Texas' third-ranked defense. As a pass rusher, Sorrell flashes bully hands and an aggressive snatch attack (which became his signature move), locking out and pulling the balance of blockers away from them (led Texas with 49 pressures in 2024, despite finishing fourth on the team in sacks). He is relentless in the run game, but he will lose contain against cutback runs and needs to play with better gear-down to eliminate missed tackles in pursuit. Overall, Sorrell passes the eye test and the foundation of his game is power, which sets up different ways for him to win, although his average short-area athleticism might limit the frequency of those wins against NFL blockers. His makeup and motor will give him a chance to carve out a role for a 4-3 scheme." Lance Zierlein's scouting report: "Sorrell's measurables and speed won't be eye-catching, but he's very consistent and plays with good technique. He can play up or down, but might be targeted as a 3-4 outside 'backer due to a lack of length. He plays with adequate power at the point and can work around blocks and into the backfield. Sorrell's rush lacks speed and power but he wins with his hands and has an above-average feel for creating entry points with positioning and body turn. He doesn't have high-end traits, but he's productive and reliable. Sorrell could become an average starter in time." They said it: "If you were to open a dictionary and see the definition of a football player, it would be him. Incredibly impressed with the way he plays, the rugged style, physicality, but then also who he is. The guy, the passion, energy he plays with, there's a lot to very football strong. Can take on the double team. Can play the tight end. Can play the open side against the tackle. And he has can play on all three downs. His style of play matches what we want to do." -- Director of football operations Milt Hendrickson New uniform: TBD Sorrell wore No. 88 at Texas, a non-traditional number for an edge rusher. No. 88 is currently worn by tight end Luke Musgrave in Green Bay. Sorrell wore No. 4 in high school and at the Senior Bowl, but that number is retired. RAS card Barryn Sorrell - Relative Athletic Score Player highlights This article originally appeared on Packers Wire: Green Bay Packers 2025 fourth-round pick: DE Barryn Sorrell
Yahoo
28-04-2025
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NFL Draft: Barryn Sorrell is the Packers' best value pick
One player I never got to during the draft process, because he wasn't 1 of the 18 edge defenders ranked among the top-100 prospects on the consensus draft board, was Texas edge defender Barryn Sorrell. Sorrell was the 21st-ranked edge defender in the class on consensus, behind the likes of Ole Miss' Jared Ivey — who went undrafted, so I just missed out on studying him. Sorrell first started to seriously appear on my radar when fellow Green Bay Packers writer Ross Uglem, the week of the draft, began to tweet out clips of Sorrell's film. Clearly, the kid could play. Advertisement In a rush to get scouting reports and profiles done on the Packers' visitors, who they drafted five of with their eight selections in 2025, I wasn't able to watch Sorrell in full until last night. The NFL made a mistake here. Sorrell should have been a top-100 selection, which is probably one reason why the former Longhorn attended the draft on Day 2, assuming he'd hear his name called much earlier than the 124th overall selection. This can happen from time to time. NFL general managers and coaches rely on area scouts to bring them priority watches going into the draft process. In deeper classes for specific positions, sometimes players slip through the cracks. Put yourself in the position of a defensive end or outside linebacker coach in the NFL. You're coming off the heels of the NFL season when you attend the combine, your only real opportunity to talk to players in person unless a player is brought in on a pre-draft visit. At that point, it's highly unlikely that you know the composition of the draft class — even at the position you coach. Advertisement Then, you're focused on evaluating the free agent market almost immediately after the combine is over. Hint: Teams and agents are communicating over what a player's potential market could be in free agency while they're in Indianapolis, even though they're not supposed to do that, per NFL rules. By late March, you can finally focus on draft picks for a while, but you're still working on other projects, like getting your practice plan for the season prepared, because voluntary offseason activities begin before the draft even starts. Even in this relatively 'dead' period of the offseason, you still have to rely on area scouts to prioritize the right players to put in front of you, so that you can use your time wisely. This is why talented players can sometimes go right underneath the noses of coaches who would potentially be coaching them, without those coaches ever having watched them. One famous case of this, at least in the scouting community, was former Packers receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling, who wasn't drafted until the fifth round of the 2018 draft. Valdes-Scantling was a transfer player, beginning his career at North Carolina State before dropping down to the G5 level with South Florida. He never posted a 1,000-yard season in college, so his production never stood out, and despite running a 4.37-second 40-yard dash at the combine that year, he wasn't put in front of every receivers coach in the league by Southeast area scouts. Advertisement When those receivers coaches revisited players whom they didn't watch following their selection, many were frustrated that scouts hadn't put Valdes-Scantling, who wound up being a 'hit' as a fifth-round pick — he has 68 NFL starts and 3,566 receiving yards in his career, on their watchlists. I'm only guessing here, not reporting, but based on Sorrell's film, I'm going to assume that defensive end/outside linebackers coaches are going to feel the same way about Sorrell in 2025 that receivers coaches fell in 2018: 'Why didn't the damn scouts tell me to watch this guy?' From a height, weight, speed and bend perspective, Sorrell has absolutely no limitations, even on the relative scale of NFL athletes. According to Mockdraftable, whose data goes back to the 1999 draft class, here are all of the edge defenders who have been able to match Sorrell's height, weight, 40-yard dash (speed) and three-cone (bend): Travon Walker Lukas Van Ness Montez Sweat Jayson Oweh Danielle Hunter Trey Hendrickson Do what you want with the inclusion of Lukas Van Ness, a former first-round pick of the Packers. I don't want to debate the merits of whether or not Van Ness has unlocked potential that Jason Rebrovich, the now-fired former defensive line coach of the Packers, wasn't able to tap into. That's for another time. Advertisement The important thing I want to point out here is that of the six players who were able to match Sorrell in all of these key metrics, four of them were first-rounders. The two who weren't were arguably the best mid-round picks at the position in recent memory. Remember, pass-rushers are treated like quarterbacks by the league. They usually don't drop down the draft board if they have a chance to be special. Typically, the top edge rushers in the NFL are first-round picks — at a rate that is not consistent with positions other than quarterback. Of those six players, all but Van Ness has been a double-digit sack player in the NFL. Sorrell certainly has areas in his game where he can improve, but players of his profile don't usually make it to the mid-fourth round. That's a fact. On film, I see a player who plays hard, has solid bend and really started to take off for Texas around the Arkansas game mid-season last year. During the Arkansas game, he made several plays early on in the game, leading to instances of triple teams by the fourth quarter. From there on in the 2024 season, it looked like he took a step forward as a pass-rusher, routinely making three or more drive-killing plays against offenses per game. Sorrell is reportedly as strong as can be. Below is what Bruce Feldman of The Athletic wrote about Sorrell in his annual Freaks List article going into the 2024 season: The 6-4, 260-pound senior clocked one of the fastest max velocity times of any D-lineman in college football last fall when he hit 19.4 mph during a game. Texas coaches are excited for Sorrell to take his game to another level after he had a terrific offseason. Sorrell bench pressed 425 pounds, squatted 575 and power cleaned 355, but coaches say the most impressive number is his explosive burst for his size. He consistently has registered 20 mph on the Catapult system. Advertisement While he might possess that strength in the weight room, I don't see it consistently used on film. There are times when he shows a really impressive stack and shed ability, but others when he doesn't look like a 425-pound bench press player when asked to set the edge. His ability to consistently play the run is going to decide how often he sees the field early on in his NFL career, but I wouldn't bet against him. For a fourth-round pick, who probably should have gone two rounds earlier, he's about as good a dice roll that you can take. While I didn't dislike any of the Packers' top-100 selections in the 2025 draft, or the pick of Oklahoma State's Collin Oliver (I haven't seen the rest of the Packers' selections at the time of writing this article), Sorrell stands out to me as the team's best 'value pick' in the class. More from
