Packers: Five draft prospects who could be the next Jordy Nelson
By Kwaku Larbi
3. Emmanuel Hall
Missouri, 6-foot-3, 195 pounds
Last offseason, the Packers drafted J’Mon Moore from the Tigers, could they add another Tiger to the receiver corps this year?
Two words for you here: deep threat.
Remember when Jordy went down in 2015 with a torn ACL? The offense just wasn’t the same without him, and Rodgers wasn’t the same without him. What was different? What changed? Well, one major difference was the lack of deep bombs Rodgers would throw to #87.
Jordy wasn’t extremely fast but there’s a reason why he was nicknamed “white lightning“. Well in Emmanuel Hall, the Packers could give Rodgers his new downfield buddy.
Hall is raw and lacks a lot of the nuance some of the other prospects on this list have, but there’s one thing that separates him greatly…speed.
Sure, the other prospects on this list have good speed, but do they have 4.3 (what Hall put up during the 40-yard dash at the combine) type speed? Simply put, no they don’t. Hall could come in and give Rodgers an elite down-field threat that opposing defenses would have no choice but to respect.
Trevor Davis was drafted a couple of seasons ago to play this role but it never came together, so why not draft someone new and faster to come in and stretch the field?
Hall should be available for the Packers to snatch up as late as the fourth round.