Let Me Tell You Something: Sports Illustrated Has No Business Grading Drafts
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Big Sal did not sleep last night. He was up until two in the morning reading draft grades, pacing the living room in his socks, and now he has something to say about it. Sports Illustrated gave the Green Bay Packers a D for their 2026 draft class, and Sal is here to burn that grade to the ground — pick by pick, stat by stat, slippers and all.
- Sal makes the case for Brandon Cisse as a Day 2 steal: a twenty-year-old corner who ran a 4.41 and allowed just eighteen catches in coverage at South Carolina — and why calling him "raw" misses the entire point of developmental drafting
- The picks SI barely mentioned: Chris McClellan's eleven-inch hands and scheme-perfect fit, Dani Dennis-Sutton's 9.96 RAS and fourth-round robbery, Jager Burton's zero sacks allowed and 4.94 forty at 312 pounds
- Why drafting Trey Smack is not a punchline — it is a direct response to Brandon McManus leaving seven points on the field in a four-point playoff loss
Big Sal said what he said. Now it's your turn — subscribe, leave a five-star review, and tell the guy at the gas station who thinks the Bears had a better draft.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, boy. Okay. All right. We are live, I think. Ryan, are we live? Let me tell you something, Pac Nation. First of all, I owe you an apology. I know, I know |
| 0:26.2 | this episode is late. I overslept. I am not going to sit here and lie to you like some |
| 0:32.3 | jabroney politician. Sal overslept. You know why? Because I was up until two in the morning reading draft grades. |
| 0:40.3 | Draft grades from people who I am now convinced have never watched a single snap of football in their lives. |
| 0:50.3 | And I could not sleep. I was pacing around the living room in my socks at 1.30 a.m. like a lunatic. |
| 0:57.9 | Ryan was blowing up my phone. I got nine missed calls. Nine. The man called me more times |
| 1:04.1 | than my doctor's office calls about my cholesterol. I finally texted them back at 1.45 and said, |
| 1:10.5 | Ryan, I am alive, I am furious, |
| 1:14.4 | and I will be late. So here we are. Now, let me tell you why I did not sleep last night. |
| 1:21.1 | Sports Illustrated, the magazine that used to mean something, gave the Green Bay Packers a D for this draft class. A D. |
| 1:31.9 | Not a B minus, not a C plus, a D. Like we are some bottom feeding franchise that just picked six |
| 1:40.5 | guys out of a gas station parking lot. And I read their little analysis. Oh, I read it. |
| 1:46.6 | I read it three times because I thought maybe I was hallucinating. They said, and I am paraphrasing |
| 1:53.3 | here, because if I read it word for word, I might have a medical event. They said that Brandon Cise is a raw prospect who needs time to develop |
| 2:03.9 | and the Packers are not in a position to be patient. They said Green Bay waited too long to address |
| 2:11.5 | the offensive line. They said it does not appear this team acquired immediate help. |
| 2:18.3 | And then, and then they closed it out by saying the Packers ended the draft by adding a kicker. |
| 2:27.3 | A D. You know what a D reminds me of? |
| 2:31.3 | A D reminds me of a guy who takes his boat out on the lake in April, hits |
| 2:37.0 | a patch of ice nobody warned them about, cracks the hull, and then blames the lake. That is what |
| 2:43.6 | this grade is. This rider hit a patch of his own ignorance and blame the Packers for it. |
| 2:50.9 | Let us start with Brandon Cise, because this is where the whole thing falls apart. |
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