Green Bay has tended to go with bigger players on the front seven recently, with linemen converts all over the depth chart.
Over the past several years, the Green Bay Packers have taken several players who played defensive end in a 4-3 system and converted them to outside linebackers. Nick Perry and Julius Peppers are just a few of the bigger names who have made that transition, but it is one that is fairly common for NFL teams that run a 3-4 defense.
What is more unusual is the Packers' propensity of late to take 3-4 ends and convert them to a stand-up linebacker role, as they did with Mike Neal a few years ago and are doing again with Datone Jones now.