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There’s a long way to go here

There’s a long way to go here


Hello Mike, this brief surprise experience will help get me through the dead zone: Flew into London Heathrow this week over Tottenham Hotspur…an impressive sight. I could almost hear the roar of the crowd responding to an AR12 TD strike! The UK was brilliant. You can’t go wrong with fish & chips and a brew at a local pub.

It sure sounds like I’ll be getting my Wisconsin fish fry fill in less than four days over there.

Insiders, the forgotten supplemental draft is on July 9. There appears to be a couple declared players such as Clemson’s big offensive tackle Isaiah Battle drawing some interest. I understand if a team selects a player they lose a draft pick in next year’s main draft. Is there a standard pick that is taken, or do other factors determine what pick is taken? Also, has the Packers taken a supplemental draft pick player ever and if so who was it?

For the supplemental draft, every team gets a chance to exercise a pick, round by round, much like the regular draft, except most teams pass on their turn (so it goes really, really fast). If a team selects a player, the round in which it takes him is the round of the pick lost next April. To my knowledge, the last time the Packers chose a player in the supplemental draft was 1998, using a second-round pick on Mike Wahle.

Now that the WRs we have on the team are on summer break (i.e., invisible), it seems the “alternate” Packers news sites are rerunning their stories on how the Packers need to trade for (popular WR) from the (rebuilding team) to complete the roster. Ugh. Personally, I’m really sick of this narrative. But since this is II and we’re supposed to ask questions, say the Packers do pick up a WR not currently on the roster. From a timeliness perspective, when would you expect it to happen?

If that happens, I suspect it’ll be just before or after the start of training camp.

Kerry from Lakewood Ranch, FL

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