The Green Bay Packers are looking forward to seeing some new rookies contribute to the team this season. They were very young last season and will be very young again this season. It doesn’t matter how young or old this team is, they will be a team that will contend for a championship this NFL season.
There were a lot of unknowns last season with the Green Bay Packers. This season, it is different what is going on. Kenny Clark received a new contract extension. Jordan Love is at camp, but he is not practicing until he receives a new contract extension.
There will be many names to pay attention to during the Green Bay Packers training camp. Love was the one name that Packers fans wanted to pay attention to last season. This season, they want to see how well Josh Jacobs and Christian Watson perform this season.
Pro Football Focus Lists Green Bay Packers Rookie Linebacker Edgerrin Cooper As a Player To Watch During NFL Training Camp
Pro Football Focus writer Bradley Locker wrote about one player for each NFL team to watch out for during NFL training camp. The one player he thinks that the Green Bay Packers should watch out for during training camp this season is rookie linebacker, Edgerrin Cooper. Locker said:
“Green Bay’s defense was generally poor under Joe Barry last season, finishing 20th in team PFF grade and 23rd in EPA allowed per play. Part of the issue was mediocre play from linebackers De’Vondre Campbell and Quay Walker, who each ended 2023 with PFF overall grades no higher than 65.1.
With Campbell heading to Arizona and Walker struggling through two seasons, general manager Brian Gutekunst retooled the team’s inside linebacking corps, headlined by selecting Cooper in the second round. The Texas A&M product posted strong grades in coverage (85.5), run defense (87.6) and pass rush (86.4) on his way to being considered one of the best linebackers in the 2024 class.
Being expected to wear the green dot or even start as a rookie inside linebacker is never easy, but it seems the Packers are counting on Cooper to do just that. Fans should monitor how good he looks, especially when making reads on Josh Jacobs‘ runs and covering the middle of the field against the team’s stellar receiving room.”
In the new 4-3 defensive scheme for the Green Bay Packers this season, he is projected to be the starting middle linebacker. The other starting linebackers for Green Bay this season other than Edgerrin Cooper are Quay Walker and Isaiah McDuffie.
This Green Bay Packers linebacking core is not a very deep group at all. It was one of the reasons why general manager Brian Gutekunst drafted him in the second round of the 2024 NFL Draft out of Texas A&M. Cooper last season with the Aggies in 12 games played recorded 84 tackles, 17.0 tackles for a loss, 8.0 sacks, two pass deflections, one fumble recovery, and two forced fumbles also.
