3 veterans the Green Bay Packers could cut because of NFL Draft
Scouting Report. Pick Analysis. WR, Packers. . Equanimeous St. Brown. 2. player. 49
As a sixth-round pick out of Notre Dame in 2018, expectations surely weren’t that high for St. Brown coming in. But as the Packers struggle to find a consistent, viable No. 2 wide receiver to pair with Davante Adams, there has been an ongoing opportunity for someone to seize. Allen Lazard has stepped up a times, with broad value to the offense that shouldn’t be dismissed. Marquez Valdes-Scantling has never been consistent enough.
St. Brown spent the entire 2019 season on IR with an ankle injury, so that season was a nothing-burger. In 24 regular season games over his other two seasons, he has totaled 28 catches for 445 yards and one touchdown (seven catches over 12 games in 2020).
On a surface level, St. Brown has a tantalizing combination of size (6-foot-5, 214 pounds) and speed (4.48 40 at the 2018 NFL Combine). But due in equal parts to injuries and being usurped by others on the depth chart, he has never translated those tools into production.
The Packers took Clemson’s Amari Rodgers in the third round of the draft (No. 85 overall). There will be a place for him somewhere right out of the gate, perhaps as the No. 2 wide receiver and Green Bay’s new Randall Cobb. That shift in the pecking order will push someone out. While St. Brown does play some special teams, he is the easy odd-man out.