Our experts Chris Raybon, Sean Koerner and Matthew Freedman take a look at 16 veterans whose value was negatively impacted by their team’s draft decisions.
Rodgers averaged 5.9 yards per attempt in Weeks 9-17 with Davante Adams in the lineup and saw 35% (9-of-26) of his touchdown passes come in two games against the bottom-feeding pass defenses of the Raiders and Giants. So what did the Packers do in the draft? Traded up for Rodgers’ potential successor in Jordan Love (Utah State) at No. 26, grabbed inside runner A.J. Dillon (Boston College) in Round 2, and bypassed the historically-deep WR class altogether.