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Packers 2020 Additions: Garvin’s draft selection makes him a long-term OLB project

Over two weeks, Acme Packing Company takes a look at each position group on the Green Bay Packers and provides grades and insight on how they performed in the 2020 season. Today, we examine the outside linebackers.

Since Ted Thompson’s return to the organization as general manager, the Green Bay Packers have been known to use late-round draft picks as fliers on athletic outliers, often from small schools. Frequently, these players have been edge rushers. Before he was a regular in the New York Giants’ defensive line rotation, Dave Tollefson was a seventh-round draft pick of the Packers after earning a RAS of 9.