GREEN BAY — Five years ago, Ted Thompson commissioned a study. The then-Green Bay Packers general manager was well aware of how extensively he’d used undrafted rookie free agency to fill the final spots of his 53-man rosters over the years, but he wanted to see how his Packers compared to the NFL’s other 31 teams.
“We like it. We appreciate the value it’s been for the Green Bay Packers over the last several years,” Thompson said at the time. “We had some studies done up and analytics stuff in terms of the number of plays that rookie free agents have been a part of.