GREEN BAY, Wis. -- In signing Jimmy Graham and Muhammad Wilkerson in the first wave of free agency, Brian Gutekunst did something no other NFL general manager could pull off: He signed the top player available at two different positions.
First it was Graham, who was rated the No. 1 tight end in ESPN’s top-100 free-agent list and fifth overall player regardless of position.
A few hours later, it was Wilkerson, the No. 1 defensive end and 26th among all available free agents.
If you believe in rankings -- and that’s all you really have to go on at this time of the NFL year -- then you’d have to consider it impressive what the first-year Green Bay Packers GM pulled off in his initial foray into free agency.