GREEN BAY, Wis. – It’s been an impactful start to NFL free agency for the Green Bay Packers, who replaced Josh Myers with Aaron Banks, added critical talent at cornerback with Nate Hobbs and lost a combined 24 starts from their defense.
What does it mean? Here are what the experts are saying in their free-agent grades.
CBS Sports: B
In Pete Prisco’s free-agent rankings, Hobbs was No. 76 and Banks was No. 77.
Banks got an enormous four-year, $77 million contract. While the analytics show he’s been an average starter, he has “surrendered just one sack in 897 pass-blocking snaps” the last two seasons and is “also a bulldozer in the run game.