For 21 consecutive seasons, the Green Bay Packers have had an undrafted rookie make the team’s Week 1 roster, so chances are that at least one of the players that Green Bay signed after the draft will make the team in 2026. We’re opening up the floor for your guesses on who that player will be.
If you need a refresher, here are all the players the Packers have signed so far. There will probably be more coming after this week’s rookie minicamp tryouts.
Green Bay Packers Undrafted Free Agents
- QB Kyron Drones, Virginia Tech
- RB Jaden Nixon, UCF
- WR J. Michael Sturdivant, Florida
- TE RJ Maryland, SMU
- TE Eni Falayi, Wake Forest
- iOL Josh Gesky, Illinois
- iOL Dillon Wade, Auburn
- iOL Dylan Barrett, Iowa State
- EDGE Nyjalik Kelly, UCF
- LB T.J. Quinn, Louisville
- S Murvin Kenion, Nevada
It’s worth noting that Drones, Gesky, Kelly and
Quinn were pre-draft visitors, meaning that the team has had their eyes on these players for a while, and that Quinn received decent guarantees for an undrafted rookie.
I’ve been able to see all of the undrafted players who were offensive linemen so far (still working through them). My favorite right now would be Florida receiver J. Michael Sturdivant, who was the highest-rated undrafted player that the Packers brought in. He’s a good blocker on film, has contributed on special teams as a non-returner, and is 6’3”, 207 pounds with a 4.40-second 40-yard dash. He’s sort of like a faster Malik Heath, if you want to think of him that way.
The other player I was impressed with on film is Nevada safety Murvin Kenion, who looked the part against Penn State and was named an All-Mountain West Conference player last year after leading the conference with five interceptions. He’s a little undersized, but his speed and violence show up.
The hitch with Kenion is going to be his age. He spent 2019 to 2021 at the JuCo level at the City College of San Francisco, years that did not count against his eligibility after JuCo players sued the NCAA. Essentially, courts have ruled that the NCAA doesn’t have jurisdiction over junior colleges, so they can’t impose that players’ eligibility begins when they start junior college ball.
Because of that, Kenion got three years of junior college (only one of which he played, 2021, because he greyshirted in 2019 and 2020 was canceled due to the pandemic) before playing four total years in the NCAA: 2022 and 2023 with Idaho, 2024 with Sacramento State and 2025 with Nevada. Yes, he’s a 2019 high school grad, meaning he graduated high school a year before Lukas Van Ness, the Packers’ first-round pick from 2023, who is already going into his fourth year in the NFL.
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