Other than the flood of rookies added in the NFL Draft and in the rush of free agency immediately afterward, the Ted Thompson era in Green Bay didn’t present a lot of challenges as far as getting acquainted with new players.
Aside from the odd Charles Woodson or Julius Peppers signing, the roster the Packers had at the end of the previous season figured to be by and large the same once training camp opened the following year.
That’s clearly different under Brian Gutekunst, who has added two new players to the roster in the final week of May, an unheard of development under his predecessor.