Pre-draft visit indicates Packers had not ruled out picking Joe Mixon

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Even if Joe Mixon had been allowed to participate at the NFL scouting combine, there’s a good chance the Green Bay Packers would have brought him to town for a pre-draft visit anyway.

“You’re not going to pick somebody based on what he tells you in a 10-minute interview,” Packers coach Mike McCarthy said earlier this month at the combine. “It’s an opportunity to communicate, interact, and from that you gather information. I’m always so impressed with our area scouts and our college director and our personnel department, how well they know these guys and how well they know their background. So this is just part of the process.”

And another part of the process apparently was…