Wednesday Cheese Curds: Now the real work begins
The draft is done. Now it’s time to get to work whipping the roster into shape.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 27: Dani Dennis-Sutton #33 of the Penn State Nittany Lions reacts after his second quarter sack against the Clemson Tigers during the 2025 Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium on December 27, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Evan Bernstein/Getty Images) | Getty Images For fans, the NFL Draft is the finish line. For the Packers, it’s more like the starting gun.
All of the weeks and weeks (and months and months) of work the Packers’ personnel department did to put together their draft board and then execute their vision did little more than reward them with more work to do. They’ve acquired the lump of clay that they must shape into the 2026 Green Bay Packers. Now they must begin to shape it.
Fortunately for the personnel guys, they get to hand off that process to the coaching staff. They get to take the baton and run now. And that might be the harder process, or at least harder to define.
On draft weekend you either get your guys or you don’t, but you come out of the weekend with your picks. Shaping those players into a cohesive championship contender is much more difficult. The setbacks are much harder to anticipate, control, and account for.