The road from Iowa City to Green Bay has been well-traversed during the Ted Thompson era, the travelers moving along with the steadiness and persistence of four-wheel-drive sedans.
Nothing spectacular to see here.
If the Packers were to take a chance on Iowa defensive line prospect Drew Ott, as they’ve been urged, they would be getting the same type of guy they’ve gotten from the Hawkeyes program, players such as Micah Hyde, Mike Daniels, Bryan Bulaga, Colin Cole, Matt Bowen and Aaron Kampman, all contributors to Thompson’s teams over his 11 years as general manager.
Ott may be one of the least studied major-college prospects in this year’s draft simply because he was a mid-round hopeful at best going into his senior year and fell off many teams’ boards after suffering two torn elbow ligaments in Iowa’s second game and a torn ACL in Week 6.