Packers’ history at their current picks in the 2026 NFL Draft

• 2006: Greg Jennings, WR, Western Michigan
• 1965: Wally Mahle, back, Syracuse
• 1952: Dave Hanner, DT, Arkansas
• 1951: Wade Stinson, back, Kansas
• 1947: Dick Conners, back, Northwestern
• 1936: Bob Reynolds, tackle, Stanford

#84

The most prominent Packers pick with the 84th selection came in the mid-1980s. The Packers had no first-round pick in 1986, having traded it the year before for the rights to defensive back Mossy Cade. Thankfully, they found a dynamite player with the 84th selection, which then came in round four. That player was Tim Harris, a standout pass-rusher out of the University of Memphis. Harris would spend five years with the Packers, totaling 55 sacks and earing two All-Pro nods and a second-place finish in the Defensive Player of the Year race in 1989. That year saw him record 19.5 sacks, which still stands as the Packers’ single-season franchise record (at least officially, as sacks only became an official statistic in 1981). The other notable selection at 84 was running back LeShon Johnson in 1994, though infamous might be a better word than notable. Johnson led the FBS in rushing in 1993 but lasted just a year and change with the Packers, getting waived midseason after 17 games. He would be out of the NFL after 1999. Just last year, Johnson was convicted of a massive dog fighting and trafficking operation.

• 1994: LeShon Johnson, RB, Northern Illinois
• 1986: Tim Harris, OLB, Memphis
• 1963: Jan Barrett, TE, Fresno State
• 1962: Oscar Donahue, WR, San Jose St.

#120

The Packers have only used pick number 120 twice in team history, and neither player ever ended up playing an NFL game.

• 1970: Cecil Pryor, DT, Michigan
• 1945: Ed Podgorski, OT, Lafayette

#153

Green Bay acquired the 153rd pick in this year’s draft from the Philadelphia Eagles in the trade for Dontayvion Wicks. The most recent selection by the Packers at 153 was for a local prospect. They drafted quarterback Randy Wright out of Wisconsin in 1984, and Wright would go on to start 32 games in a Packers uniform over the next five years. They did not go well — the team was just 7-25 when he started — and he threw just 31 touchdowns against 57 interceptions in his career.

• 1984: Randy Wright, QB, Wisconsin
• 1979: Dave Simmons, LB, North Carolina
• 1964: Jack Petersen, OT, Nebraska-Omaha
• 1945: Robert “Buster” McClure, OT, Nevada

#160

The Packers’ own 5th-round pick this year comes at 160 overall. As with pick 120, the Packers have only selected at 160 twice in their history. One player never appeared in an NFL game, but the other, Carl Elliott, was a two-way player for four seasons in the early 1950s. Elliott logged 60 pass receptions for 581 yards and six touchdowns while also playing defensive end.

• 1950: Carl Elliott, TE/DE, Virginia
• 1947: Jim Goodman, OT, Indiana

#201

The Packers have only used the 201st overall selection once, doing so on someone who would not play in an NFL game.

• 1948: Don “Red” Anderson, back, Rice

#236

While the 236th pick has gone to Green Bay an impressive ten times in history, few of these players had notable careers. The most recent pick was safety Vernon Scott out of TCU, who lasted a few short years in Green Bay. But the most recognizable name here — especially for current Packers fans — was Jeff Janis, the third of three wide receivers that the team selected in the 2014 NFL Draft. Janis was the prototypical big, fast, small-school wide receiver. Although he effectively redshirted as a rookie and barely saw the field on offense for much of his Packers career, he became a special teams staple for the final three years of his rookie contract before moving on to Cleveland in free agency. Janis, always a bit of a cult favorite, stepped up big in the Packers’ 2015 Divisional Playoff game in Arizona. In the lineup amid injuries to Randall Cobb and Jared Abbrederis, Janis caught 7 of 11 targets for 145 yards and two touchdowns. But those numbers don’t really explain his performance in that game; he caught back-to-back Hail Mary receptions from Aaron Rodgers, first a 60-yarder on 4th-and-20 with Rodgers heaving the ball out of the Packers’ own end zone, then a 41-yard touchdown as time expired to tie the game and send it to overtime. (Never mind what happened after that.)

• 2020: Vernon Scott, S, TCU
• 2014: Jeff Janis, WR, Saginaw Valley St.
• 1986: Brent Moore, LB, USC
• 1967: Harlan Reed, TE, Mississippi St.
• 1961: Jim Brewington, OT, NC Central
• 1956: Clyde Letbetter, T, Baylor
• 1955: Bob Antkowiak, end, Bucknell
• 1953: John Harville, back, TCU
• 1946: Chick Davidson, T, Cornell
• 1944; John Wesley Perry, back, Duke

#255

Although the most recent Packers pick at 255 was just two years ago, he is not the player that Packers fans will remember from this draft slot. The year was 1987, and Green Bay took a late-round flier on a quarterback out of Virginia. Don Majkowski made five starts for the Packers as a rookie, splitting time with Randy Wright, then took over as the full-time starter midway through the 1988 season. In 1989, he made the Pro Bowl, leading the NFL in passing yards, attempts, and completions as he helped lead the Packers to a 10-6 record. The “Cardiac Pack” won a ton of close games that year, with four wins by a single point and another two by a field goal or less. That run included 5 fourth-quarter comebacks and seven-game winning drives, and along with Majkowski’s ability to scramble and make plays with his legs it helped earn him the nickname the “Majik Man” and cemented his place in Packers lore. Majkowski battled injuries the next few years, making just 16 starts over the following two seasons. His final start for Green Bay came in week three of the 1992 season, but after he was injured in that game, a young Brett Favre led the Packers to a comeback win over the Cincinnati Bengals and would start every game at quarterback for the Packers until his first retirement at the end of the 2007 season.

• 2024: Kalen King, CB, Penn State
• 1987: Don Majkowski, QB, Virginia
• 1981: Nickie Hall, QB, Tulane
• 1973: Larry Allen, LB, Illinois
• 1957: Ronnie Quillian, QB, Tulane
• 1954: Willie Buford, T, Morgan St.
• 1952: Karl Kluckhohn, end, Colgate Who will be the next great Green Bay Packers player drafted in one of these slots? Hopefully we’ll be able to add a legendary name to the list as a 2026 pick the next time one of these slots ends up in the Packers’ hands in a few years.