It seemed to make all the sense in the world at the time. The Green Bay Packers would shore up their pass rush by taking Wisconsin linebacker T.J. Watt in the 2017 draft.
Instead, Ted Thompson decided to trade back to pick up an extra fourth-round pick and took cornerback Kevin King to open the second round. It’s hard to argue that the Packers didn’t fill a need in taking King. Their pass defense was atrocious in 2016.
However, the story is a bit more interesting than that. It seems pretty much everyone wanted to take Watt.