GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The longer the Green Bay Packers go without drafting a receiver in the first round, the harder it will be on the one they finally take in that position -- whether it's next week, next year or next decade.
It’s too late for it to be any other way.
Most of the receivers worthy of consideration at the top of the NFL draft were still in diapers the last time the Packers picked one in the first round (Javon Walker, 2002). The University of Minnesota’s Rashod Bateman was 2 1/2 years old.