It might physically kill a top-100 player to run agility drills this year.
I’ve been running a Green Bay Packers thresholds big board for the past several years here at Acme Packing Company, an endeavor that grows increasingly futile each and every subsequent year as fewer players in the rounds that matter actually complete testing. Hell, this year, a bunch of first round prospects either did nothing or just ran the forty yard dash.
When considering a Packers team that has often used field testing
athleticism as a threshold to build out a big board (if not by decree, certainly by action), the list of players that check every box grows smaller with each passing year. This is why when the big board ultimately gets posted in a few weeks, it will be about failing off prospects rather than what today’s topic will cover, which is combine invitees who hit every well-documented Packers threshold at their position. Applaud these men, for they are not cowards.
Couple of quick housekeeping notes before we get to the brave heroes: no quarterbacks were included. Quarterbacks rarely test anymore, and we don’t have anything approaching established thresholds at the position. Tight end was not included as it’s basically just any tight end that runs a sub 4.70 40 yard dash. Safeties were not included as Green Bay is unlikely to draft one in the top five rounds given they return the entire position room in 2027.
The grand total of combine invitees who hit all their Packers marks, out of 319 prospects, was just 26. And to get to 26, it involved using a lot of official pro day data that the NFL gets from scouting services and then disperses to teams, and that finds its way to places like Football Sheets or draftscout dot com. The brave 26 are not distributed evenly across positions either. In fact, as of writing today, and with only one defensive tackle unaccounted for (Domonique Orange has an individual workout this week), zero defensive tackles check the boxes. At EDGE, it’s just one. This is mostly a product of top 150 players on the defensive front largely not running agilities at all. Only three top-125 consensus defensive tackles even ran a 3-cone during the pre-draft process, and all three had surprisingly poor times. At EDGE, a position where the ankle flexibility is even more important, the problem is even worse. Only TWO top 125 EDGE prospects did a 3-cone. TWO! We’re losing recipes.
Shoutout to the tight ends though. Those guys aren’t cowards. 27 tight ends were invited to the combine. Three did not do any pre-draft testing due to injuries. That leaves 24. Of those 24, 16 ran a 3-cone.
Enough preamble, let’s get to why you’re here. Note the consensus board ranking will be listed next to the player in parenthesis and is from NFL Mock Draft Database.
Running backs
Thresholds: 200 lbs, 4.58 40 yard dash, 7.20 second 3-cone
Qualifying players: 1
Mike Washington Jr., Arkansas (#67)
- 223 lbs, 4.33 40 yard dash, 6.96 3-cone
Washington had a visit with the Packers and really checks every box Green Bay is looking for in their ball carriers right now. He’s big, he’s very fast, and he’s pretty agile. If the Packers take him in the second I’m going to crash out.
Wide Receiver
Thresholds: 5110, 190 lbs, 4.59 40 yard dash, 7.02 3-cone
Qualifying players: 7
NOTE: Green Bay has two “types,” and with Jayden Reed, Matthew Golden, and Bo Melton all on the roster, they’re probably going to exclude almost everyone who isn’t at least 6010 and 200 lbs. Still, for purposes of this, I want to still highlight the smaller guys.
Germie Bernard – Alabama (55)
- 6012, 206 lbs, 4.48 40 yard dash, 6.71 3-cone
Awesome 3-cone time for a guy with legitimate outside receiver size. If Green Bay wasn’t already over-signed at receiver, he’d be filling up day 2 space in Packers mock drafts.
Elijah Sarratt – Indiana (#79)
- 6024, 210 lbs, 4.53 40 yard dash, 7.01 3-cone
Sarratt gets some Romeo Doubs comps, and while the ceiling probably doesn’t pop for the National Champion, he looks the part of a solid complementary receiver at the next level, similar to the former Packer.
Skyler Bell – UConn (#81)
- 5115, 192 lbs, 4.40 40 yard dash, 6.65 3-cone
Struggled with drops, but the former Wisconsin Badger had plus-production and blew away the pre-draft testing process, which is needed at his smaller size.
Bryce Lance – North Dakota State (#87)
- 6033, 204 lbs, 4.34 40 yard dash, 7.00 3-cone
Lance fits the big/tall/fast trio of the typical LaFleur/Gutekunst wide receiver to a tee.
De’Zhaun Stribling – Ole Miss (#136)
- 6021, 207 lbs, 4.36 40 yard dash, 6.99 3-cone
Stribling has started to show up in more fans mock drafts in the past couple weeks since the Reed/Wicks trade buzz has gotten going. Fits the same size/speed combo numbers that Lance does, but comes from a polar opposite offense.
Chase Roberts – BYU (#246)
- 6032, 204 lbs, 4.54 40 yard dash, 6.89 3-cone
Possible day three target if Green Bay does move one of Reed or Wicks.
Harrison Wallace III – Ole Miss (#307)
- 5117, 194 lbs, 4.54 40 yard dash, 7.01 3-cone
With both Golden and Reed on roster, both Wallace and our next guy are unlikely to be taken, as Green Bay can’t afford more smalls in the receiver room.
Offensive line
Thresholds: 300 lbs, 1.82 10-yard split, 4.75 short shuttle, 7.80 3-cone
Qualifying players: 7
Francis Mauigoa – Miami (#5)
- 329 lbs, 1.78 10-split, 4.59 shuttle, 7.77 3-cone
Mauigoa didn’t have to do this. I appreciate that he did. Mauigoa may be the first lineman taken and his athleticism, particularly at his size, really really pops.
Spencer Fano – Utah (#12)
- 311 lbs, 1.72 10-split, 4.67 shuttle, 7.34 3-cone
Fano will be long gone by the time Green Bay picks.
Blake Miller – Clemson (#28)
- 317 lbs, 1.75 10-split, 4.65 shuttle, 7.75 3-cone
Miller is likely to be a first round pick and looks likely to be in the NFL what he was in college: a solid and underappreciated tackle for his entire career.
Keylan Rutledge – Georgia Tech (#63)
- 316 lbs, 1.81 10-split, 4.54 shuttle, 7.54 3-cone
Collegiate guard who is seen as a possible high-end center convert, particularly for teams that trying to run between the tackles, like Green Bay.
Sam Hecht – Kansas State (#73)
- 303 lbs, 1.73 10-split, 4.71 shuttle, 7.75 3-cone
Now to talk out of both sides of my mouth. Hecht is taller than Logan Jones (next on the list), which actually makes him less dense, but he does play up in size.
Logan Jones – Iowa (#99)
- 301 lbs, 1.75 10-split, 4.45 shuttle, 7.35 3-cone
In reality, Jones is probably too small for Green Bay with how they structure the run game now. In a prior life, where Green Bay was running mostly outside zone, I’d be mocking him to the Packers like clockwork with those elite agilities, but he’s probably too small for this inside zone/duo offense right now, particularly because he doesn’t play larger than his size.
Jager Burton – Kentucky (#149)
- 312 lbs, 1.76 10-split, 4.52 shuttle, 7.64 3-cone
A favorite in the middle rounds of mock drafts. Burton is a strong interior line prospect who is a favorite of our writers here at APC.
Defensive tackle
Thresholds: Density-adjusted speed score of -.29 or lower, explosive power of .96 or higher, and agility score of 0 or higher
Qualifying players: 0
Defensive tackles just aren’t doing agilities, or if they are, they’re running nearly 8 second 3-cones, which is tough to make work for Green Bay. If I don’t remove players who didn’t run agilities, that would qualify five players: Bryson Eason, Caleb Banks, David Gusta, DeMonte Capehart, and Kaleb Proctor. Capehart in particular posted some top-tier scores.
EDGE
Thresholds: Density-adjusted speed score of 1.2 or lower, explosive power of .9 or higher, agility score of 1 or higher
Qualifying players: 1
Dani Dennis-Sutton – Penn State (#71)
Penn State just keeps on churning out elite athlete edge defenders. These types of athletes at the position, when ranked in the top 100, have a very low bust rate, so I’d be pushing him up my own personal board from his current 71st position.
Similar to defensive tackle, if blank agilities are ignored, it does expand the pool. This would include Cashius Howell, David Bailey, Keldric Faulk, Malachi Lawrence, TJ Parker, and Packers visitor Romello Height.
Linebacker
Thresholds: 230 lbs, 4.7 40 yard dash, 4.4 shuttle, 7.20 3-cone
Qualifying players: 6
Sonny Styles – Ohio State (#6)
- 244 lbs, 4.46 40 yard dash, 4.26 shuttle, 7.09 3-cone
LOL. Moving on.
Jacob Rodriguez – Texas Tech (45)
- 231 lbs, 4.57 40 yard dash, 4.19 shuttle, 6.90 3-cone
Rodriguez put on a show at the combine, and slipped a half a billion times on his shuttle while doing so. Rodriguez is a toss-up to even be on the board by Green Bay’s first pick, and probably fits best in a defense that already has a thumper so he can play Will.
Jake Golday – Cincinnati (56)
- 239 lbs, 4.62 40 yard dash, 4.32 shuttle, 6.89 3-cone
Played a bizarre slot role in college. Big ball of clay. Quite tall and the agility doesn’t show on the field as much, but getting him with a good linebackers coach might unlock him.
Keyshaun Elliott – Arizona State (155)
- 231 lbs, 4.58 40 yard dash, 4.28 shuttle, 7.02 3-cone
Elliott is a bit undersized, but has the athleticism that can allow it to be made up for. May not fit in Green Bay if they are looking for a thumper to ultimately succeed Zaire Franklin.
Jack Kelly – BYU (185)
- 240 lbs, 4.57 40 yard dash, 4.19 shuttle, 7.12 3-cone
If Green Bay hadn’t filled their linebacker room with vets, Kelly would be a very common link for Green Bay. Still may end up here because the Packers commitments to Welch and Niemann are not sizable, and McDuffie is also movable.
Karson Sharar – Iowa (400)
- 231 lbs, 4.56 40 yard dash, 4.20 shuttle, 6.98 3-cone
I’m not going to lie to you and tell you that I know anything about Sharar.
Cornerback
Thresholds: 5105, 190 lbs, 4.52 40 yard dash, 7.00 3-cone
Qualifying players: 4
Julian Neal – Arkansas (88)
- 6015, 203 lbs, 4.49 40 yard dash, 6.90 3-cone
If you could build a Packers CB prospect athletic profile in a lab, it’d look like Julian Neal. Plus height and weight, sub 4.5 40, and 3-cone solidly in the sixes.
Malik Muhammad – Texas (92)
- 6000, 190 lbs, 4.42 40 yard dash, 6.95 3-cone
Muhammad benefits from the fact I always take the “best of” between combine and pro day. His combine weight would have taken him off the list, but he got up to 190 for his pro day.
Ephesians Prysock – Washington (148)
- 6033, 196 lbs, 4.45 40 yard dash, 6.82 3-cone
Prysock is really thin for his height, moreso than Green Bay typically goes for, but there are fewer density-adjustments done for the corner position generally, so I won’t take him off the board. Falls right in line with the 4th/5th round range where Green Bay will potentially be looking to add a second corner in this draft.
Latrell McCutchin – Houston (459)
- 6017, 191 lbs, 4.43 40 yard dash, 7.00 3-cone
McCutchin barely sneaks in on the both the 3-cone and weight. He’s player 459. I have no idea who he is.
And that’s everyone as of today. Three players have yet to have verified testing at their individual pro days. These are Jordyn Tyson (WR, Arizona State), Gabe Jacas (EDGE, Illinois), and Domonique Orange (DT, Iowa State). We’ll see if those players get added in the coming weeks. Be on the look out for the big board and a big board appearance on Draft Talk from Frozen Tundra Frequencies later this month.
