Green Bay Packers: 3 recent Draft booms and busts
By Kenny Jilek
Quinten Rollins
Now moving on to a guy who I can only assume was a victim multiple times of those nasty moves from Davante Adams in practice. Quinten Rollins was the second-round draft choice for the Green Bay Packers in a year when it appeared they wanted to bolster the secondary after taking Demarious Randall in the first round. Four years later, they are both gone, along with that entire draft class. That’s right, not one of the players selected by the Packers in 2015 is still on the team.
Rollins played three years for the Packers from 2015-2017 and was not on an NFL roster last season. In his three short seasons in Green Bay, he had three interceptions and 16 total passes defended.
The Green Bay Packers’ front office decided that his level of production was not enough and drafted a total of four defensive backs in the top two rounds of the 2017 and 2018 drafts in Kevin King and Josh Jones in 2017, and Jaire Alexander and Josh Jackson in 2018. These moves, along with bringing Tramon Williams back in free agency, sealed Quinten Rollins’ fate as the odd man out.
Rollins is not completely done trying to make it in the NFL. There was a report that he attended Broncos camp this week for a tryout, but he was not signed following the workout and it appears he’ll have to look elsewhere if he wants to prove he can still be a serviceable player in this league.