GREEN BAY — David Bakhtiari got $103.5 million. Brian Gutekunst got to take a walk down memory lane to a time when the difficult job of football scouting got it right — big time.
Yes, after making Bakhtiari the highest-paid offensive lineman in NFL history, Gutekunst found himself thinking back to where the Green Bay Packers franchise left tackle’s professional journey began.
It was during the 2012 college football season, when Bakhtiari was a redshirt junior at the University of Colorado and Gutekunst, now the Packers general manager, was in his first year as the team’s director of college scouting.