Packers: The gameplan for replacing Randall Cobb
By Kwaku Larbi
A gameplan for the Green Bay Packers if they lose Randall Cobb in free agency.
Looking ahead to next season, the Green Bay Packers wide receiver group could do with a little variety. As it stands, Randall Cobb is a free agent (along with Geronimo Allison).
Losing Cobb, who over the last several years has played an essential role in the Packers offense as a shifty, quick, small body slot receiver who was elusive enough to even take snaps from the backfield, would leave the receiver room looking like this:
• Davante Adams – 6-foot-1, 215 pounds
• Marquez Valdes-Scantling – 6-foot-4, 206 pounds
• Equanimeous St. Brown – 6-foot-5, 214 pounds
• Jake Kumerow – 6-foot-4, 209 pounds
• J’Mon Moore – 6-foot-3, 205 pounds
Notice anything? Yep, the Packers’ receiver corps is filled with tall, rangy body types (Adams being the exception as the No. 1 wideout). Even if Cobb is re-signed, the Packers would really help Rodgers and the entire offense if they could essentially get a Cobb clone/replacement.
Someone who can create some space and get those yards-after-catch yards like Cobb used to in his prime, whether with speed or crisp route-running. Think Wes Welker, Doug Baldwin, Julian Edelman or Jarvis Landry (Miami edition).
With that in mind, let’s have a look at some options the Green Bay Packers could exploit and find that new slot receiver.