2022 NFL Draft: The Reasons Behind the Picks

Gutey refuses to join the madness.

It’s all well and good to say “just be calm and let the draft come to you”. But when you have a gaping hole on your football team, and the rest of the league is engaged in a frantic early run on the position you lack, the pressure to trade up and join the reaching frenzy must be tremendous.

To his credit, Packers General Manager Brian Gutekunst kept looking at his board and must have been saying to himself “I like these receivers, but I don’t like them THAT much. So much that I have to trade valuable draft capital for one of them.” He wasn’t about to get sucked into the madness like, for example, the Detroit Lions, who traded a first, a high second and a…