Scouts view of th 2026 cornerback class provides narrow band of players for the Packers

In a weird class of cornerbacks, Brian Gutekunst was always going to need some luck, but NFL scouts paint a dim picture of options for Green Bay.

Upwards of 30 cornerbacks will get drafted later this month, with a dozen or more likely to come off the board in the first three rounds. The problem for the Packers is that they wouldn’t have drafted most of them, even if given the chance. They care too much about their physical profile in the early rounds, and they don’t need a slot corner.

By the time the third round ends, Green Bay may only have had the chance to draft two or three cornerbacks they’d actually want to have.

Bob McGinn’s venerable NFL draft scouting survey series focused on cornerbacks, a primary position of need for the Packers this offseason. A handful of names jumped out in the top 100 that were not top-100 players by media consensus.

We went through this exercise a few weeks ago and coincidentally landed on this group of names for the Packers (with their consensus rank at the time)

95. Julian Neal

102. Devin Moore

105. Daylen Everette

118. Will Lee III

124. Tacario Davis

Of this group, everyone except Julian Neal made the NFL scouting survey list, and the bottom three all landed squarely inside the top 100 according to McGinn’s scouts.

To try and figure out who could likely be available with Pick 52, here is the list of cornerbacks without solid first-round grades, but with higher-than-third-round-grade averages according to the survey.