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Pack-A-Day: Your Daily Packers Podcast

Packers Draft Primer - Cole Payton - QB - North Dakota State

Pack-A-Day: Your Daily Packers Podcast

Andrew Herman

Sports, Football

4.4888 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Join Ross Uglem for his breakdown of North Dakota State quarterback Cole Payton. Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

20 minutes a day, 365 days a year.

0:11.5

This is the Pack a Day podcast.

0:18.7

What is up, Packers fans, and welcome back to the Daily Draft.

0:22.2

Today, we are breaking down North Dakota State quarterback Cole Payton.

0:26.7

Excited to do this one.

0:27.7

Obviously, you know, Cole's an NDSU guy.

0:30.1

I'm an NDSU guy.

0:31.7

But he really, really fits in with what Green Bay needs, could use, etc.

0:38.2

Interested to see where he goes.

0:40.2

Interested to see, you know, where he's taken from a number perspective, not necessarily

0:45.4

the team he goes to, but where does the league value a one-year starter at the

0:49.8

FCS level?

0:50.5

Obviously, it's not going to be where the league valued Trey Lance, and so far that has not gone well for Trey, right, a top three pick who only started one FCS level. Obviously, it's not going to be where the league valued Trey Lance, and so far that

0:54.7

has not gone well for Trey, right, a top three pick who only started one FCS season. That is going

1:00.8

to scare people away, and Colpain is in no danger or threat of being picked in the top five. With

1:08.3

that said, he's really interesting for a team that just lost Malik Willis to the Dolphins.

1:13.5

For a team that has, I think, Desmond Ritter right now is QB2,

1:17.7

and that can't be too terribly exciting.

1:21.8

I think there's a chance, right, that Green Bay goes in to this offseason with the quarterbacks that they have,

1:32.8

and they just say, okay, you know, McCord is kind of our draft choice, if you will, from last year.

1:42.6

That's Kyle McCord, the quarterback from Syracuse.

1:45.5

Ritters are veteran backup, though I've never been shown that that's a good thing.

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