16 offensive tackle prospects who fit Packers experience benchmarks
Green Bay has coveted experience, ideally on the left side in their draft picks at offensive tackle. Here are 16 prospects who fit the bill in 2026.
The offensive tackle position is next up in the Green Bay Packers "production benchmarks" series. There is no such thing as "production" for offensive linemen in the traditional sense or via the box score, but Green Bay still has standards for the position, specifically in terms of experience. Since Brian Gutekunst took over as general manager in 2018, the Packers have drafted 11 players who were offensive tackles in college.
On average, they had played 2,443 snaps before stepping up to the NFL. The fewest number of snaps by one of their draft picks was Jon Runyan Jr. , who was a sixth-round pick, and he was still a two-year starter at a premier program in Michigan, playing 1,628 snaps at left tackle.
Green Bay has historically coveted college left tackles specifically, using the logic that the left tackle is where most teams put their best offensive linemen. They have then often moved those players around after drafting them, kicking them over to the right side or inside to guard if necessary. This process goes way back to the Ted Thompson days, but in Gutekunst’s tenure, Jordan Morgan, Anthony Belton, Sean Rhyan, Travis Glover and Rasheed Walker all played at least 2,100 snaps at left tackle before being drafted by the Packers.
Besides Runyan Jr. , the likes of Zach Tom, Cole Van Lanen and John Williams were all multi-year starters at left tackle with at least 1,700 snaps there. The only two tackles with little-to-no experience on the left side under Gutekunst have been Royce Newman and Cole Madison.