Quick reaction draft grades are something like the candy of NFL coverage. They’ll rot your teeth, but it flies off the shelves. According to an analysis done by Football Outsiders in 2020, grades drastically fluctuate depending on the grader and have little to no predictive power for a class’ future success.
But the consumption of draft grades is more about the feeling of hope for the future than anything rooted in predictive power, anyway. With that being said, here’s how writers around the country think the Green Bay Packers and general manager Brian Gutekunst did in 2023.