GREEN BAY — One of the great mysteries involving the Green Bay Packers is how they keep spending premium draft picks on defensive players and yet their defense never gets any better.
It’s been that way since the bottom fell out of the defense in 2011.
After the Packers completed still another defense-first draft Saturday, taking defenders with five of their eight picks, including both first-rounders, the amount of resources they have thrown at the defense is staggering.
In the past eight drafts, the Packers used 18 of their 24 picks in the first, second and third rounds on defensive players.