• After working him primarily at right guard as a rookie, the Packers will have 2024 first-round pick Jordan Morgan, a college left tackle, compete on the blind side this offseason. “One thing about him is he has that elite athleticism,” Stenavich said when asked why Morgan can play left tackle in the NFL. “Guy moves well, he’s fast, he can redirect. I think now is just a good time to put him out there and see how he does and just watch him compete.”
• Stenavich also said that coaches spent time this offseason examining how to elevate tight end Tucker Kraft’s game beyond last season, during which he emerged as one of the NFL’s best young tight ends. “I think just his route-running ability, getting him on more individual things like that, and just kind of growing him there,” Stenavich said. “I think he did a really good job in the run game … hopefully he can keep improving there to be a dominant player up front. Just trying to find different ways to give him the ball, that’s gonna be the big thing for us.”
Perhaps it’s just the yearly May enthusiasm, but the often stoic Stenavich, Green Bay’s offensive coordinator, couldn’t help but crack a smile when asked about first-round pick Matthew Golden.
“Yeah, like him,” a giddy Stenavich said. “Looks fast. … I’m really excited to see how we progress through training camp and all that stuff, the plays he’s going to make. I’m fired up about it.”
Stenavich also sounds high on third-round wide receiver Savion Williams, a Swiss Army knife who might play more of a gadget role than a traditional wide receiver after the 6-foot-4, 222-pounder saw substantial action in the backfield at TCU.
“He’s a guy that is really interesting,” Stenavich said. “You can come up with a zillion different ways to use him in your offense. That’s one guy I’m really fired up about.
“We have a good core of older wideouts, and then we’ve got these two young guys coming in that are really special. It’s not as if they have to start and be the guy at a certain position. We can put them in different places, see where they excel, and move them along from there.”
Hafley asked reporters on Monday if they had seen the linebacker Cooper yet this offseason. They had not.
“When you see him now, he looks different,” Hafley said, estimating Cooper is close to 240 pounds after being listed at 229 during his breakout rookie season.
Aside from safety Xavier McKinney, Cooper might’ve been the Packers’ best defensive player after they took him in the 2024 second round out of Texas A&M. A hip injury nagged Cooper during training camp and stunted his early-season growth, while a hamstring injury sidelined him for three games in the second half of the season. He still won NFC Defensive Player of the Week twice and likely would’ve been a Defensive Rookie of the Year finalist had he stayed healthy (he finished sixth in voting and there were five finalists). “Now he knows what it’s going to take to stay healthy in this long season, and you can tell he’s dedicated that time into caring for his body and changed his body, and now when you sit with him in that room it’s, I mean, he’s locked in and he’s focused,” Hafley said. “Now it’s getting the details down. Now it’s lining up exactly where he needs to line up and doing it over and over and over again because then he’s gonna show up faster and he’s going to make more plays and he’s going to become a more consistent player.”
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