Identifying Packers "type" receivers in the 2022 NFL Draft, part 2

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on the wide-receiver position in the upcoming 2022 NFL draft, where we expect GM Brian Gutekunst to attack the receiver position aggressively following the trade of Davante Adams. We gave you the “what” and the “why",” on Wednesday. Today, you’ll get the “who,” as is in who fits the mold and projects most favorably the NFL.

There’s looking the part and there’s playing the part. Plenty of players in the NFL test like great players or look in flashes like high-impact pieces, but can’t match it with consistency or technique or both. Receiver is particularly like that, where the best athletes are rarely the best technicians. That’s why teams like the Packers prize traits based on athletic molds that have historically succeeded. To take it to the next level, we can layer on the statistical profiles of college players who translated that success to the pros.

On Wednesday, I wrote about the predictive value of metrics like Dominator and Breakout Age, which are exactly what they sound like: how much of your team’s yardage and scoring do you account for, and at what age did you start producing at a high level. The more and the earlier the better.

And we have incredible historical hit rates to support the usefulness of these numbers. If you missed the explanation from Wednesday, you can find it here.

Working off our list of athletic qualifiers, let’s use Dominator and Breakout Age, prioritizing players who put together above-average profiles in those measures.

To recap, here is our list of players who fit the physical mold Green Bay likes