Well, friends, we've made it: it's officially the worst time on the NFL calendar. Congrats everyone!
As we all wait two weeks for the last game of the season, our time is going to be spent focusing way too much on the weird Draft SZN games that happen over the next three months. Whether it's the Senior Bowl or the Shrine Bowl, the next phase of the NFL's year is full of action-packed reporting from some of the most unreliable people you've never heard of. It's like the Wild West for unconfirmed team meetings with future 6th rounders.
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But actually it's unironically exciting when the Packers do it, which is great news because if you can believe it, the Packers are, in fact, meeting with players at the Shine Bowl. And we know that because we saw it on the internet, which means it has to be true. According to one tweet recap of one podcast, the Packers met with Michigan defensive tackle Kenneth Grant recently.
Packers reportedly met with Michigan DT Kenneth Grant at Shrine Bowl
Again – the report comes from a random Packers Twitter account – who, again, is also just reporting what they heard on a random Packers podcast – so I cannot stress enough that you should take the info only for what it's worth. If you want to believe it, don't let me stop you. If you are a little skeptical, that's fine too – there are going to be five hundred more rumors like this in the next month, so you can pick and choose which ones you want to believe.
Grant's been one of the best defensive tackles in college over the three years he's' been at Michigan, and many consider him the 2nd-best DT tackle in an absolutely-stacked draft class this season, only behind teammate Mason Graham. According to PFF's Mock Draft tracker, Grant's average draft position right now is somewhere between 17-24, which would him right on the edge of where the Packers (23rd overall pick) could get him with their first rounder.
But he (supposedly) met with them, so anything's possible! This could be the start of Kenneth Grant's Hall of Fame Packers career, and we wouldn't even know it. That's the power of the Shrine Bowl.