GREEN BAY, Wis. – In “Top Gun,” Maverick famously proclaims, “I feel the need … the need for speed.”
If the Green Bay Packers feel the need to get faster at linebacker, they’d pounce on Notre Dame linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah if he fell to them in the first round of this month’s draft. The Butkus Award winner as the nation’s top linebacker was Green Bay’s pick in a four-round mock draft at SI.com’s NFL Draft Bible.
Speed has been a major deficiency for Green Bay’s linebacker corps for years. Last year’s fifth-round pick, Kamal Martin, didn’t test at last year’s Scouting Combine due to knee surgery but the Packers had him pegged as a “high 4.