In Ted Thompson’s second draft as General Manager of the Green Bay Packers in 2006, he faced what many believed to be a two-player decision with the fifth overall selection: tight end Vernon Davis or linebacker A.J. Hawk.
They say that hindsight is 20/20 and that may be the case when revisiting the team’s choice to ultimately draft Hawk. The easy assumption is that if the Packers could do it all over again, drafting Davis would have been the best route after his long and successful NFL career. But there are several variables that make the decision difficult to evaluate, even more than a decade later.