5 Green Bay Packers draft picks way worse than Jordan Love
By Todd Welter
B.J. Sander | Punter | Green Bay Packers 2004 third-round pick
Sherman decided to use a third-round pick on a punter. The Green Bay Packers needed just a few pieces to get over the hump and get to a Super Bowl.
A punter was not one of those pieces.
Sander was bad. He was so bad that he did not even make the 2004 team. Instead, he spent his rookie season on the practice squad.
In 2005, he won the starting job, but he turned out to be one of the worst punters in the NFL with a 39.2 yards per punt average.
He was drafted out of Ohio State, but he struggled to kick in the cold weather. He was cut prior to the 2006 season and never played in the NFL again.
The defense was one of three reasons that kept the Packers from winning a Super Bowl during the Sherman era.
Players like Nathan Vasher and Jared Allen were still on the board. Those two might have helped the Green Bay Packers’ defense.
Instead, bad draft decisions like Sander helped the Green Bay Packers continue to decline into mediocrity. Poor drafting was the second reason the Packers never won a Super Bowl in the Sherman era. The third reason was bad free agent signings because Sherman was so bad at drafting he had to overpay for free agents. A lot of those free agents did not work out.