Doug Farrar of Touchdown Wire ranked Xavier McKinney of the Green Bay Packers as the NFL’s fourth-best safety entering the 2024 season, trailing only Kyle Hamilton, Antoine Winfield Jr. and Jabril Peppers on the list.
The Packers signed McKinney away from the New York Giants on a four-year deal worth over $16 million per season during free agency.
From Farrar:
McKinney will be especially valuable to his new team as a free-range guy in the deep third who can match and trail on deep routes, and can roam from the middle of the field to either boundary for breakups and interceptions…Doubling McKinney’s importance is his knack for working receivers all the way through their routes as a short and intermediate defender.