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The Green Bay Packers granted Matt LaFleur’s request for speed at wide receiver during the 2022 NFL draft. At the NFL Annual Meetings last month, LaFleur said the Packers needed to add speed to help replace Marquez Valdes-Scantling, the offense’s top deep threat. A month later, Brian Gutekunst obliged, taking two of the fastest on-field players at the Senior Bowl in Christian Watson and Romeo Doubs. “Certainly, if you look at our roster right now, we definitely need to get some speed in… Source link

Round 2 1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Logan Hall, EDGE, Houston — Hall is a long, positionally diverse defender who will never be a huge sack producer, but he can contribute in multiple ways. He’s known as humble and hard-working, having added about a quarter of his body weight since going to college, and will help fill a void on Tampa’s d-line. Grade: C+ 2. Green Bay Packers: Christian Watson, WR, North Dakota State — Big move up from Green Bay, who wasn’t slated to pick until No. 53 and… Source link

The NFL draft went to Las Vegas and quickly got drunk. In the shadow of Caesars Palace, commissioner Roger Goodell morphed into part carnival barker, part pit boss, announcing 32 picks and a record nine first-round trades in a wild night befitting a wild offseason. (Remember when Tom Brady retired? Me neither.) There were just three trades in last year’s first round. Teams moved up. Teams moved down. They traded picks and players. They dished veterans on the side. And, yes, they made some… Source link

Brett Favre talks to the Atlanta Falcons from his bedroom in Fenton, Mississippi, on NFL draft day April 21, 1991. Favre was drafted in the second round by the Falcons, and later trade to the Packers. (Photo by Tim Isbell/Biloxi Sun Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) On the morning of the 1991 NFL draft, Tim Isbell followed an unpaved road deep into the piney woods of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The Biloxi Sun Herald photographer kept driving until he reached a ranch-style house a… Source link

Andrew Whitaker is like every other long-shot NFL prospect in exactly one way: He has a dream of making it. That part is unremarkable. But everything else about Whitaker, a cornerback at Division III Washington University In St. Louis, apparently is. Whitaker is not only a standout at his level of football. He’s also a national champion for the school in track. He has won or been nominated for national awards for academics (too many to list), community service (Allstate AFCA Good Works Team)… Source link

Mel Kiper Jr. won’t be on site in Las Vegas next week for the NFL draft. The longtime ESPN draft analyst will participate in draft coverage from his home studio in Maryland because he is unvaccinated against COVID-19, he announced on Twitter on Monday. Kiper said he will still be part of ESPN’s coverage for all three days of the draft — which will mark the 39th of his career. “I completely support everyone determining what’s best for their individual circumstance and recognize the… Source link

Yahoo Sports WNBA writer Cassandra Negley recaps all three rounds of excitement from the 2022 WNBA Draft. Video Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] CASSANDRA NEGLEY: The WNBA welcomed 36 new players to its ranks on Monday night for the 2022 WNBA draft. The first was Rhyne Howard out of Kentucky. Atlanta Dream picked her number one after making a trade for that spot last week. Now the first round went off script, if you had followed mock drafts up until this point. And it started with the Indiana Fever,… Source link

In free agency, the Minnesota Vikings signed edge rusher Za’Darius Smith, but the work is not done! While they have spoken about wanting to get a Danielle Hunter extension done, neither Hunter nor Smith are a guarantee after this season. On tonight’s show, Yahoo Sports’ Eric Edholm joins the show to discuss the edge class in-depth. How good is it at the top? How deep is it? When should the Vikings take an edge? Find out tonight on The Real Forno Show at 8 central! After that, we… Source link

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Having released Za’Darius Smith to help get in compliance with the salary cap and last year’s young backups providing meager contributions with Smith missing most of the season, Eric Edholm went with Purdue’s George Karlaftis with the Green Bay Packers’ first pick in a mock draft at Yahoo. Edholm noted some pertinent Packers history in making the first pick. “With receiver somewhat picked over and a quality pass-rush talent on the board, this is the way we’ll go… Source link

Google is rolling out a new feature in its Docs that’s designed to make it easier to use its word processor to draft emails, the company has announced. It’s part of Google’s “smart canvas” initiative, which aims to seamlessly weave together the search giant’s productivity software like Meet, Docs, and Gmail. Much like Google Docs’s other smart canvas features, the email draft template is accessed with the @ symbol, before selecting “Email draft” from the context menu…. Source link