While the 2025 NFL Draft is still about 10 months away, the college football season is already on the horizon, with the first week scheduled for the weekend of August 24. That means it’s not too early to start building your watchlists of draft-eligible prospects for the Green Bay Packers.
Pro Football Focus did some of the weighty lifting recently, going through all 11 positions and selecting the top 10 draft prospects from each. Here’s who they selected along the interior offensive line. For more information on each player, click Here.
Tyler Booker, Alabama
Tate Ratledge in Georgia
Donovan Jackson, Ohio
Clay Webb, Jacksonville State
Jaeden Roberts at Alabama
Jonah Monheim, USC
Parker Brailsford in Alabama
Luke Kandra, Cincinnati
Dylan Fairchild, Georgia
Jake Slaughter in Florida
Packers GM Brian Gutekunst has selected multiple offensive linemen in four of the last five drafts, including three times when he selected three in the same class.
The sheer organizational philosophy of continually adding competition to the trenches makes it more likely that the Packers will expand their interior room for the offensive line in the 2025 draft – to what extent that may depend on how this season unfolds, with perhaps a gigantic The wild card in all of this is whether the team views Jordan Morgan as an attacker or defender.
However, right now we know that Josh Myers and Royce Newman will be free agents next season, and Newman will be a potential candidate for release this summer before the season even starts. If both play elsewhere in 2025, which is certainly a possibility, then additional depth will be necessary from both a numbers and competition standpoint.
Incoming rookie Jacob Monk could replace Myers at center. The Packers also added Travis Glover, who has some college guard experience, to this year’s draft, and they also rate highly undrafted rookie Donovan Jennings, who was guaranteed $110,000 at the time of signing. according to Spotrac.
However, with that said, it’s too early to say for sure what role Glover or Jennings could play, especially next year, and the return of either may not make much of a difference when it comes to determining how the Packers will solve this position problem in project.
What’s more, Sean Rhyan will be in the last year of his rookie contract at this point. He’ll be competing for a much larger role this summer, but there’s no word on whether that will translate into a second contract, and with planning ahead for the 2026 offseason, that’s another reason why the Packers could invest in the interior of the offensive line in April next year.
Addressing the interior offensive line doesn’t necessarily mean simply drafting a linebacker or center, as we’ve seen the Packers have a lot of success over the years by drafting tackles who then move them inside.
The Packers currently have seven official picks in next year’s draft, one in each round, and are projected to receive a pick to compensate for the loss of Yosh Nijman in free agency, which would give them a total of eight picks.
