Green Bay Packers OTAs start this week. Here are four of the biggest battles, starting with who will start alongside cornerback Jaire Alexander.
GREEN BAY, Wis. – With the start of Green Bay Packers OTAs this week, it’s go time for new defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley.
Scheme is important but it’s the players who will win or lose games. Here are three battles on defense and one more on special teams worth watching during Packers OTAs.This is the biggest position battle on the entire roster. Jaire Alexander will start at one cornerback position. Keisean Nixon will man the slot. Who will be the other corner?
Injuries to Alexander and Stokes meant Valentine started 12 games as a seventh-round pick. He allowed just a 51.1 percent catch rate with one touchdown allowed, zero interceptions and 10 passes defensed. How about the other two spots in the base 4-3 defense? Presumably, second-round rookie Edgerrin Cooper will grab one of those positions. How about the other? Fourth-year player Isaiah McDuffie, who emerged as a solid performer with Walker and De’Vondre Campbell in and out of the lineup last year, is the obvious front-runner. Can rookie third-round pick Ty’Ron Hopper challenge for that spot?Of course, the Packers will line up in their base defense about 20 percent of the time.
“I really, really love those two guys,” defensive line coach Jason Rebrovich said of Cox and Banks. “I think they’ve matured extremely well in their period of time being here. The depth that we have, really, talks to our personnel department was able to get those guys here. I’m really looking forward to those two guys. JJ , obviously, being here and being around is a huge plus and a bonus for us. Depth is huge. We all know that, especially in this scheme and system.
Kicking for the Vikings last year, Greg Joseph made 80.0 percent of his field-goal attempts, including 53.9 percent from 40-plus yards, and 94.7 percent of his point-after kicks. In three seasons kicking in Minnesota, meaning most of his action came in the great indoors, Joseph made 82.2 percent of his final goals and 90.3 percent of his extra points.
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