2018 NFL Draft: Green Bay Packers 7-round mock draft

Round 5, Pick 150

M.J. Stewart, DB, North Carolina

Stewart can be a chess piece for Mike Pettine. At 5-foot-11 and 200 pounds and a physical tackler, Stewart can be used all over the field. In fact, he a top rated player at both corner and safety coming out of high school.

Some teams could use him a safety who can play the slot. Others may see him as a corner who can play some safety. For Pettine, those designations are ultimately meaningless. He’s an ideal swing player for this team as a backup and special teams player who could grow his role as he develops.

Round 5, Pick 172

Auden Tate, WR, Florida State 

The fun thing about this draft is some believe Tate deserves to be a Day 2 pick. In this mock, he falls all the way to the fifth.

Tate brings incredible size and contested catch ability, something the Packers haven’t really had some Jermichael Finley was in town. Aaron Rodgers doesn’t need any help in the red zone, yet Tate would be a huge help in the red zone. The combination could be lethal to defenses.

Round 5, Pick 174

Kurt Benkert, QB, Virginia 

A former transfer from East Carolina, Benkert possesses prototypical size (6-foot-4 and 225 pounds) and can make all the throws with plenty of zip.

Inconsistency with ball placement plagued Benkert, though a limited cast around him didn’t help either. That said, he ran a pro style offense at UVA—potentially a hinderance given the incredible success so many spread teams find in college— and has the experience to come in right away and be a serviceable backup.

Considering how the Brett Hundley experiment is gone, the Packers need one of those and this is the right range to take their shot.