I’ve given up looking at free agent prospects.  BTW – the Pack signed an offensive lineman named Duke Preston from Buffalo.  Feel like we’re going to the Super Bowl?

Anyhoo, TSN has their 7 round mock draft up and they’ve got all 9 Packers picks laid out for you.  What’s interesting is that after switching to the 3-4 they have the Packers taking 5 defensive players and 4 offensive players.  Beanie Wells (RB – OSU), Cody Brown (OLB – UConn), Ron Brace (the other DT -Boston College), David Veikune (DE – Hawaii), Cornellius Ingram (TE – Florida), Alex Magee (DT – Purdue), Ramon Foster (T – Tennessee), Ray Feinga (G – BYU) and lastly Julius Williams (OLB – UConn).

Of that list only Wells and Brown could make any kind of real impact this year.  Brace could become a good nose tackle but it might take a year or two.  Ingram is coming off ACL surgery, Magee seems to take plays off, Williams is switching from DE — and he isn’t as physically talented for the switch as his teammate Brown — and Veikune projects as a career 3rd DE and special teams player.

Now, getting a 1 round mock draft right is almost impossible, so 7 rounds is mathematically certain to be incorrect.  But, I sure hope the Pack gets more contributions from this draft class.  Why?  Well, since the Bears just traded everything to get Cutler, the Vikings have Peterson, a defense, and Rosenfels could shore up the QB spot, leaving the Packers with relatively the same team that went 6-10 to compete against them.  Thompson isn’t going to sign anybody else with any kind of impact and that leaves the draft.

Now, do you feel like we’re going to the Super Bowl?