Why not?
Don’t get to play NFL General Manager very often but I’ll join the parade of reporters and bloggers and offer up my prognostication of the 2021 Green Bay Packers roster which will have to be determined by the Pack’s GM, Brian Gutekunst by 3 PM Tuesday afternoon. I’ve also added 16 players waived onto a projected practice squad.
My 53
QB (2) Aaron Rodgers, Jordan Love
RB (4) Aaron Jones, A.J. Dillon, Kylin Hill, Dexter Williams
WR (6) Davante Adams, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Allen Lazard, Randall Cobb, Malik Taylor, Amari Rodgers.
TE (4) Robert Tonyan, Marcedes Lewis, Josiah Deguara, Dominque Dafney
OL (9) Elgton Jenkins, Lucas Patrick, Josh Myers, Royce Newman, Billy Turner, Jon Runyan, Yosh Nijman, Ben Braden, David Bakhtiari (comes off PUP, carried active)
DL (6) Kenny Clark, Dean Lowry, Tyler Lancaster, Kingsley Keke, T.J. Slaton, Jack Heflin
LB (9) Za’Darius Smith, Preston Smith, Rashan Gary, Krys Barnes, De’Vondre Campbell, Ty Summers, Isaiah McDuffie, Jonathan Garvin, Oren Burks
CB (6) Jaire Alexander, Kevin King, Chandon Sullivan, Eric Stokes, Kabion Ento, Shemar Jean-Charles
S (4) Adrian Amos, Darnell Savage, Henry Black, Vernon Scott,
K (1) Mason Crosby
P (1) J.K. Scott
LS (1) Hunter Bradley
PRACTICE SQUAD (16)
QB Kurt Benkert RB Patrick Taylor TE Bronson Kafusi WR Reggie Begelton WR Juwann Winfree, WR Equanimeous St. Brown, OL Cole Van Lanen, OL Jake Hanson, DL Josh Avery, Delontae Scott, CB Issac Yiadom CB Stephen Denmark, S Innis Gaines, LB Chauncey Rivers, OL Jacob Capra, DL Willington Previllon.
PUP (1) Dennis Kelly – out 6 games
R/Suspended (1) Jace Sternberger – 2 games
IR (2) Will Redmond, Randy Ramsey
I had to let Benkert go and roll the dice the Packers can bring him back (unlike Taysom Hill) because they need as many special teams bodies as possible. Bakhtiari is really close in my opinion and I don’t think the Packers want to wait until mid-October to get him back. Tough cutting the Bay Port product in Cole Van Lanen but even his line coach Adam Stenavich admitted Sunday he needs time to develop. Dexter Williams was a bit more productive than Taylor at running back, Heflin was just too hard of a worker to cut loose. I kept Kelly on board on the PUP list as veteran (Rick Wagner in ’20) insurance on the line.
