GREEN BAY – Donald Driver is ready for the NFL draft in April.
The 22-foot tall statue of one the Packers' greatest draft successes located outside The Depot restaurant, across Dousman Street from Neville Public Museum, was repainted last week. Driver — the man, not the statue — is a Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame member who was chosen in the seventh round of 1999 NFL draft, the 213th of 253 selections. He played his entire 14-year career with the Packers.
Donald Driver the statue has had a more peripatetic career. Known as The Receiver for the first part of its life, the statue was located outside the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame on Lombardi Avenue in what is now the Resch Expo parking lot.