The Green Bay Packers have drafted plenty of front seven players from college football programs outside the power conferences in the past few decades. Think back to players like Nate Palmer from FCS Illinois State, C.J. Wilson from East Carolina, or D.J. Smith of Appalachian State. If you go back even farther, you can find names like Dave Tollefson from Northwest Missouri State, whom Ted Thompson selected in the seventh round of the 2006 draft.
This year, if you look in a different direction in the state where Tollefson played college ball, you just might find another edge rusher who would fit the Packers and who may end up being one of the team’s late-round draft picks in 2018.