The Green Bay Packers are RUNNING OUT of options at defensive tackle, so who do they pick early?

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🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The options in the draft for defensive tackles keep thinning out as top players either don't test or test poorly. Considering the Packers' history, that could eliminate them from consideration at 52 overall. What's going on? And could that encourage them to draft a receiver instead? An edge player?

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0:00.0	The Green Bay Packers are running out of options to solve their defensive tackle problem this offseason.
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0:42.9	The Packers have a defensive tackle problem and it has a cascade effect on everything
0:49.9	the rest of the off season.
0:52.8	There is a slew of things
0:55.2	that proceed from the fact that the draft
0:59.8	may not produce, at least on the high end,
1:03.1	good options at the defensive tackle position.
1:07.1	We're going to talk about at least two of them.
1:11.4	Let's start with this issue.
1:13.4	Because Caden McDonald and Kristen Miller, for my money, the top two defensive
1:18.9	tackles in this class, did not test.
1:22.0	So you have no athletic profile.
1:25.4	Maybe if they're there at 52, Brian Gutikins will say they're too good.
1:31.7	It's too important to get one of these guys.
1:34.4	So hang our preferences on athletic models and we're going to take one of these guys.
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