As part of the Green Bay Packers’ overhaul at safety, the team used a draft pick on Oregon’s Evan Williams. A fourth-round pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, Williams was garnering a lot of attention from teams around the league.
In the fourth round of the 2024 NFL Draft, the Green Bay Packers selected Oregon safety Evan Williams. He is part of a revamped positional group in the team’s secondary that defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley has to be excited to work with.
The Packers are one step closer to completing their draft pick signings.
The Green Bay Packers were not messing around when it came to upgrading the safety position this offseason, with Evan Williams as one of their newest additions.
Never in the history of mankind has a general manager stood in front of the media and said he regretted picking a certain player. After using fourth- and fifth-round picks on safeties Evan Williams and Kitan Oladapo, Green Bay Packers GM Brian Gutekunst was predictably excited.
The Green Bay Packers, by all accounts, had a very solid 2024 NFL Draft. They entered the event with 11 selections, giving them the ammunition to maneuver around the board should the opportunity have presented itself.
There have been times throughout Brian Gutekunst’s tenure as general manager of the Green Bay Packers that strategy during the NFL Draft has come into question.
Evan Williams’ phone rang at the start of Day 3 of the NFL Draft. It was the Green Bay Packers. He didn’t think much of it. “I was just sitting expecting to take the first few calls, kind of just the introduction calls, telling them how we feel or how the day is going,” Williams said in a Zoom call on Saturday.
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