2020 NFL Draft: 5 positions the Green Bay Packers should target

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MOBILE, AL – JANUARY 25: Quarterback Jordan Love #5 from Utah State of the North Team during the 2020 Resse’s Senior Bowl at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on January 25, 2020 in Mobile, Alabama. The North Team defeated the South Team 34 to 17. (Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images) /

As they try to fortify a roster that went to the NFC title game last year, here are five positions the Green Bay Packers should target in the 2020 NFL Draft.

Matt LaFleur’s first year as head coach went very well in 2019, as the Green Bay Packers went 13-3, won the NFC North and reached the NFC Championship Game. Skeptics would point to eight wins coming by one-score margins as a sign of regression coming in 2020.

But as Bill Parcells once said, you are what your record says you are. So the Packers should not apologize for winning games, and they are the early favorite to win the NFC North this year.

After going on a bit of a spending spree last offseason, the Packers were less aggressive in free agency this offseason. That was as much a function of not needing to shop in the high end of free agency as much as any financial consideration, so it’s not a red flag.

The next step for the Packers is a trip to the Super Bowl, and it has to come soon as the window narrows while Aaron Rodgers is still the quarterback.

Here are five positions the Green Bay Packers should target in the 2020 NFL Draft.

5. Quarterback

Rodgers is under contract through 2023, but he will turn 37 during the 2020 season and if he were to be injured the Packers would have to turn to Tim Boyle.

Quarterback appears to be on the radar for general manager Brian Gutekunst, with Green Bay among the teams with reported interest in Jordan Love. Even it’s not a premium pick, say first or second round, expect the Packers to come away with a quarterback in the draft.

4. Tight End

The decision to cut Jimmy Graham was too easy, as he’s a shell of what he was and $8 million in cap space was cleared. Jace Sternberger is being counted on to step up, after an injury-shortened rookie season last year, with Marcedes Lewis and Robert Tonyon behind him on the depth chart.

Green Bay needs to add weapons around Rodgers however possible. Perhaps as early as the second round, a tight end could be on the radar.

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