NFL Combine Watch Thread: Saturday – QB, RB and WR

INDIANAPOLIS, IN - FEBRUARY 27: Baylor wide receiver Josh Cameron answers questions from the media during the NFL Scouting Combine on February 27, 2026 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, IN. (Photo by Zach Bolinger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) | Icon Sportswire via Getty Images W

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Welcome to the third day of testing for the least-participated in combine in NFL history. Hopefully, more players will run on Saturday, since the event will start a little earlier. Today will feature the quarterbacks, running backs and receivers doing on-field work, which will include former Green Bay Packers quarterback Taylor Elgersma doing some throwing.

Let’s break down who the projected top-200 prospects are in this group, per the consensus draft board, and some Packers-adjacent thoughts at these

positions.

Quarterbacks

#1 Fernando Mendoza, Indiana
#32 Ty Simpson, Alabama
#85 Garrett Nussmeier, LSU
#113 Drew Allar, Penn State
#126 Carson Beck, Miami
#132 Cole Payton, North Dakota State
#168 Sawyer Robertson, Baylor
#193 Taylen Green, Arkansas
#195 Jalon Daniels, Kansas
#198 Luke Altmyer, Illinois

Green Bay could be in the backup quarterback market in the draft, but they also signed Desmond Ridder and Kyle McCord, two former draft picks, to reserve-futures deals at the start of the offseason. Sawyer Robertson is a bit of a Bo Nix, which is either a pejorative or a compliment depending on where you stand on Nix’s first two years in the NFL. Taylen Green is a long-striding scrambler who reminds me a bit of Dennis Dixon.

Running Backs

#9 Jeremiyah Love, Notre Dame
#53 Jadarian Price, Notre Dame
#76 Jonah Coleman, Washington
#77 Emmett Johnson, Nebraska
#110 Nick Singleton, Penn State
#118 Mike Washington Jr., Arkansas
#127 Kaytron Allen, Penn State
#159 Seth McGowan, Kentucky
~~#167 Kaelon Black, Indiana~~ (not invited)
#197 Adam Randall, Clemson

This is expected to be a weak running back class (I haven’t spent too much time here), but all of the guys after the top four are bigger body backs, which is something that Green Bay has really liked in the Matt LaFleur era. Aside from Aaron Jones, the vast majority of the Packers’ backs under LaFleur have been 220-ish pounds or heavier. I don’t really expect that to change, with the way they structure their run game now (inside runs like duo and inside zone) and how they’ve built their offensive line significantly heavier in recent years. It’s all sort of moving in the same direction.

Receivers

#7 Carnell Tate, Ohio State
#10 Jordyn Tyson, Arizona State
#13 Makai Lemon, USC
#20 Denzel Boston, Washington
#26 Kevin Concepcion, Texas A&M
#41 Omar Cooper Jr., Indiana
#42 Malachi Fields, Notre Dame
#49 Zacharian Branch, Georgia
#51 Chris Bell, Louisville
#52 Chris Brazzell, Tennessee
#58 Elijah Sarratt, Indiana
#66 Germie Bernard, Alabama
#73 Antonio Williams, Clemson
#84 Ja’Kobi Lane, USC
#94 Ted Hurst, Georgia State
#95 Skyler Bell, UConn
#101 Deion Burks, Oklahoma
#112 Brenen Thompson, Mississippi State
#134 Reggie Virgil, Texas Tech
#138 Kevin Coleman Jr., Missouri
#142 C.J. Daniels, Miami
#143 Josh Cameron, Baylor
#161 Bryce Lance, North Dakota State
#162 Eric McAlister, TCU
#164 Kendrick Law, Kentucky
#188 De’Zhaun Stribling, Mississippi
#~~189 Tyren Montgomery, John Carroll~~ (not invited)

I don’t think the Packers will be in the receiver market much, considering that Christian Watson, Jayden Reed, Matthew Golden, Dontayvion Wicks, Savion Williams and Bo Melton all return in 2026, but stranger things have happened.

For what it’s worth, Josh Cameron of Baylor is the one LaFleur-sized outside receiver (Reed, Golden and Melton are almost always either slots or motion men outside of third downs already) who also returned punts in college football last year. Gun to my head, he’d be my choice if you asked me to guess right on a receiver from this group going to Green Bay in the draft in April.

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