Green Bay Packers: Post Mini-Camp 53 Man Roster Prediction
By Paul Bretl
Mini-camp is in the books, and after signing De’Vondre Campbell and Jake Dolegala, which resulted in the team releasing Mike Weber and Anthony Rush, it would appear that the Green Bay Packers 90-man roster is set—or at least it is for the time being.
So this seems like the perfect time to make a 53-man roster prediction for the Green Bay Packers—although is there ever a bad time? You don’t have to answer that, by the way.
As is the case for every team, every year, a majority of the final roster spots are already accounted for, and that seems to ring especially true for the Green Bay Packers, who are returning a large portion of their 2020 roster to make what hopefully ends up being another Super Bowl run.
While those back-end of the roster battles won’t be determined until training camp and the preseason takes place, based on what we saw at mini-camp, along with some educated guessing, I’ll do my best to predict what Green Bay’s roster will look like come Week 1 in New Orleans and provide my reasoning along the way.
Quarterback (2): Aaron Rodgers and Jordan Love
Until we see concrete evidence that Aaron Rodgers won’t be a part of the Green Bay Packers in 2021, I’m going to operate under the assumption that he will be. And with Jordan Love as QB2, I believe that the Packers will only carry two quarterbacks this season instead of three, thus opening up an additional roster spot for them to utilize.
Running back (4): Aaron Jones, AJ Dillon, Kylin Hill, and Patrick Taylor
I could absolutely see a world where the Green Bay Packers keep just three running backs, but they kept four on the roster in 2020, so I’ll do the same here. Both Taylor and Hill are well-rounded backs that can be effective in the passing game and are willing blockers—both very good fits for this offense. Dexter Williams is the odd man out.