WR Draft Fit Series: Round-by-Round Targets for Green Bay's Offense
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The draft fit series rolls on — and this week it's wide receivers. Ryan breaks down what it actually means to play wideout in Matt LaFleur's Shanahan-style West Coast offense: the pre-snap motion, the horizontal stretch, the blocking demands, and why versatility beats raw alpha traits in this system. Then he gets into the film room and scouts round-by-round targets who fit the mold.
- What the current WR room tells us about LaFleur's receiver profile — Watson, Reed, Golden, Wix, and Savion Williams each fill a specific role, and knowing those roles reveals exactly what's missing
- The Romeo Doubs void: Green Bay needs a physical, press-beating chain mover who can win in traffic and play the "dirty role" — and Ryan paints a precise picture of that prospect type
- Round-by-round targets: Jeremy Bernard (Alabama), DeJohn Stribling (Ole Miss), Josh Cameron (Baylor), and Chase Roberts (BYU) all get scouted with PFF grades, RAS scores, and scheme-fit analysis
- The Bryce Lance and Ted Hurst hype — Ryan weighs in on both fan favorites and explains where they fit (and where they don't)
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | I am your host and resident fanalyst. |
| 0:14.9 | As always, Ryan Schlipp. |
| 0:16.4 | Check us out online, packernet.com. |
| 0:18.8 | Find me on Twitter pack underscore dat. so we're going to get back on the |
| 0:24.6 | train we got derailed a little bit there um not going to worry about any minor news and notes right |
| 0:29.9 | now because i want to get back on this train um it's going to be a little bit of a grind |
| 0:35.5 | because it's a series and serieses are always kind of a grind. |
| 0:40.2 | And I like to interrupt them once in a while because they can get a little dry. |
| 0:43.7 | But for those that like a little bit more of the deep dives and looking into stuff, |
| 0:48.2 | this is a little bit more meat, you know, as opposed to candy. |
| 0:56.8 | I don't know, dude. |
| 0:58.6 | So what I'm talking about is, so the first thing we did, we ran through and kind of did an overview of the roster, right? |
| 1:05.9 | Let's look at the actual players. |
| 1:07.2 | Let's look at their contracts. |
| 1:08.3 | And let's get a better understanding of what we have, what we don't have, and maybe where we have some blind spots, weak spots, whatever the case may be. |
| 1:17.1 | The second pass-through is to say, okay, now that we have a little bit of a better understanding, |
| 1:22.1 | unfortunately, this was such a long time ago, I have to re-remember everything, which can be a |
| 1:25.6 | challenge. But now that we've already |
| 1:27.5 | gone through those things and have a better idea of maybe what our needs are, why don't we |
| 1:32.5 | take that information and look to the draft and maybe see, excuse me, what, I don't know, |
| 1:47.9 | I want to be careful how I say it, because I don't want this to be anything definitive. I don't want to say like, this is what we're targeting, and these are the prospects |
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