GREEN BAY, Wis. -- One of Ted Thompson’s longtime draft-day tenets is rooted in simple supply and demand. When it comes to offensive and defensive linemen, there simply aren’t enough good ones to go around.
“The good Lord only made so many [of them],” the Green Bay Packers general manager is fond of saying. It’s a line used both by Thompson’s former lieutenants (Seattle GM John Schneider and Kansas City GM John Dorsey each have their own versions of it) and by current staffers, such as Packers director of player personnel Brian Gutekunst, who used a variation of it while discussing the team’s top two draft picks.