Second-Round Pass Rusher Deep Dive — My Guys, My Concerns, and My Tape Notes
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ Pack Daddy goes full film room on the second-round pass rusher class — and walks away with some clear favorites, a few frustrations, and one guy he simply cannot stop watching no matter how hard he tries to talk himself out of it.
📋 What's covered in this episode:
- 🔥 The Small Pass Rusher Revival — Why the top-10 PFF-graded edge rushers blow up the narrative that you need 265+ pounds to win in the NFL, and how Micah Parsons isn't the outlier we keep pretending he is
- 🎯 Romelo Height, Texas Tech — A 93 PFF grade, a teleport move Ryan can't explain, and the uncomfortable truth that he might be a first-round talent falling due to age and measurables
- ✅ The My Guys List — Malachi Lawrence (UCF), Josh Josephs (Tennessee), and Kiron Crawford round out the group of edge prospects Ryan trusts to play fast and natural from day one
- ❌ The "Yeah But" Group — R. Mason Thomas, Derek Moore, and Danny Sutton each get honest assessments — solid traits, real concerns, and the question of whether the production ever actually showed up
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | I am your host and resident fanalyst. |
| 0:14.6 | As always, Ryan Schlipp. |
| 0:16.3 | Check us out online, packernet.com. |
| 0:19.1 | Find me on Twitter, pack underscore dat. All right. So there's some news |
| 0:26.4 | and note stuff that doth exist. However, I want to start with this because I don't want to get |
| 0:33.1 | caught up in other things and not have time to get to it, especially since the draft is |
| 0:36.3 | rapidly approaching. So I told you yesterday, kind of just a flippant thing. It wasn't like a hardcore |
| 0:42.9 | note or whatever, but what I said, I think toward the end of the show, I don't even know what |
| 0:49.6 | show it was. But the point is, at some point yesterday, I made the comment into this microphone that I was |
| 0:56.8 | going to watch pass rushers because I kind of talked myself into, it must have been packing it |
| 1:02.6 | after dark because I think it was one of the questions. I talked myself into the fact that pass rusher is one of the positions I could see somebody starting |
| 1:17.4 | and, you know, how you quantify starting over a season, whatever. |
| 1:24.5 | But just based on how many people are entrenched in positions, um, compared to, |
| 1:30.3 | you know, without Micah Parsons, the number two edge spot feels like it's wide open, |
| 1:34.2 | especially if we're talking about a second round pick. If, if every, run through every position in |
| 1:39.7 | the second round, this person gets picked. If a tackle gets picked, he's not starting. If a guard or center |
| 1:46.1 | gets picked, could start, I would guess doesn't. Tight end? No. I don't even think you could talk |
| 1:53.4 | me into him being the number two. Next year, sure, this year, I don't think so. Wide receiver, |
| 2:00.1 | that's a joke. Running back? No. Now, |
| 2:04.1 | you know, pending some kind of an offseason injury or whatever, but we're obviously not |
| 2:07.6 | going to speculate about that. Safety, no. Linebacker, very unlikely. Defensive tackle even could be |
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