General manger Ted Thompson has had 12 first-round draft picks in his tenure with the Green Bay Packers. Nine of those picks have been defensive players.
Let’s go down the list.
- 2006: A.J. Hawk (5)
- 2007: Justin Harrell (16)
- 2009: B.J. Raji (9)
- 2009: Clay Matthews (26)
- 2012: Nick Perry (28)
- 2013: Datone Jones (26)
- 2014: Ha Ha Clinton-Dix (21)
- 2015: Damarious Randall (30)
- 2016: Kenny Clark (27)
Of the three years Thompson didn’t take a defender in the first round, he went for Brett Favre’s successor, Aaron Rodgers, after the quarterback inexplicably fell in his lap in 2005, and tackle twice — Bryan Bulaga in 2010 and Derek Sherrod in 2011.