I want to be clear up front: there's no news in this blog. If that's all you needed to hear, fair play, I'll see you sometime next week when there's another mock draft to make fun of.
For anyone else who doesn't care about news and just wants to wildly over-speculate about the Packers: welcome. You've found your home here. Today's leap to conclusions comes to you via the Packers' own team site, so you know it's at least kind of legit. At least, that's what I'm telling myself.
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In a long mailbag mostly full of draft questions, Packers team website editor Mike Spofford was asked about the offensive line.
In one specific question, Spofford is asked whether he thinks the Packers will take an offensive tackle early in the draft; his answer doesn't really address the question, but what it does do is way, way more interesting.
Packers' team insider hints that team is going to sign Zach Tom to a big extension
"I wouldn't be shocked but it's not what I'm anticipating, not after last year's first-round pick and my belief the Packers aren't letting Zach Tom go anywhere," writes Spofford.
I'm not even going to acknowledge that first part, because it is just a big ol' heap of random words placed neatly together without any real meaning – something I'm very familiar with. The second part, however, is a fun lil' treat. It's not much as far as reporting goes, but when a Packers insider – he literally works inside the Packers' building – hints that a Zach Tom extension could be on the horizon, it's worth taking a little more seriously than, say, a random X account saying the same thing.
And I surely don't need to tell you this, but it'd be a slam-dunk extension. Last year, according to our football overlords at Pro Football Focus, Tom ranked fourth among all eligible NFL tackles in overall grade (87.6); he also ranked 12th in pass block grade and third (!) in run block grade. His overall grade has improved significantly in each of the three seasons he's played, and he was the second-highest graded player on the entire offense last year, behind only Josh Jacobs.
I imagine it's a lot of people's belief that the Packers aren't letting Tom go anywhere, but when the Packers' own web editor is saying that, I tend to believe it a little more. We may as well just go edit Over The Cap right now.