Thanks Gilbert

Good list as all these guys are fairly cheap contracts.
I'd add Tyler Lancaster as I think we need a big upgrade from him. A try-hard guy sure, but he never got within 5 yards of Raheem Mostert.
I'd like to add Dean Lowry to the list, but they overpaid him so he's probably safe.... we need 2 big beefy stout guys added on the DL.

Good list and good article Gil. I also think our WR group will be very fluid coming into next season. And just like our D-line group, I think the O-line personnel will see some turnover. Both those groups have a whack of nondescript players who could easily be replaced with the next guy who shows some potential. Unfortunately, both our lines suffer a lack of quality depth. If Kenny Clark goes down, an already weak run D-line gets a whole lot worse. The same is true for an O-line that will struggle to put 5 solid starters on the field if an injury hits.

Look for Cole Madison and Lane Taylor to fight for the final cut.

Agree with all of these. I would add EQ to the list. I really like Equinemious St. Brown, I always thought he had the highest upside of the 3 drafted receivers but last year hurt his development. He cannot have a SO-SO camp (if there is a camp). And I agree on Tyler Lancaster. His play dropped off IMO. My man Kingsley may pass him up on the depth chart in camp.

There's not a lot to disagree with here. Solid analysis.

Best possible scenario is all of these players being off the roster next season.

Great job Gil with solid reasoning for your choices. I would be really disappointed to lose Jackson given many thought he was good enough to be drafted in the first round. The guy does flash some talent. I am just wondering if we could line him up in a safety position or hybrid like Raven Greene was playing and allow him to find the field more. I do agree that he might find his way off the team, but find success in another team's system.

Nice Column Gil, thanks.

I would add...

Bob Tonyan - show me something for crying out loud!
Tim Boyle - Grab the back-up role and OWN it!
Oren Burks - It Is Time!
Alex Light - Show or Go, we need to see development in our OL reserves
James Looney - position change? Be good or be gone.

and one call-out to a rookie from last year.
Darrius Shepherd - last year the lights were too bright, settle down and show us why you were kept coming out of TC. I believe in you as a slot for the future!

I didn't see Owen Burks on the list. An oversight or is he no longer a Packer?

I think Holman & Jackson will battle it out for the last CB on roster. I like Holman 4.39 forty and 38 inch vertical.

As a fan, I never got last years positive hype on M. Adams. Perhaps this year it will be different and he will live up to it. If not, I see him as an early camp casually.

Whoever wrote the article is so far off base that they might as well be on the flipping moon.

HERE YOU GO, EVERY GUY ON THAT LIST, MAKES THE TEAM.

Here's the biggest mystery to me. Josh Jackson? What happened to this guy? He LIT IT UP in preseason in his rookie year. I was like, OMG, they really hit on a CB here, and then all the mediocre coaching and whatever else happened?

This dude looked like Mike McKensie walking into camp, ready to start, and then NOTHING BUT DECLINE? WT* is that, and WT* kind of coaching, or lack thereof has happened since?

All 5 of these players make the team, that' s how stupid this list was...

I think Dexter Williams has the talent but needs to mature or he will be gone. I was reminded by another commenter the other day that we already have a RB in the roster who fits many of the characteristics of a dark horse diamond candidate: Damarea Crockett. Willams is definitely under threat.

Kumerow had a golden opportunity to force his way onto the field and show he belonged. He didn’t and might not even make camp.

MVS has looked good and produced and then didn’t. From the summary one might overlook that. He and the team are the only ones that know how his leg injury impacted. If we get a similar athlete, MVS is going to have to fight, but is perhaps less likely than others to depart at this point.

Last year the team stated that they wanted Jackson to focus and learn a specific role. Was that real? If it was, what that role is determines his competition. I have to think that they will give him a good chance to succeed. If it was lip service deflection, he may not survive to cut down.

Adams is, for me, the most disappointing. He was drafted for penetrative ability in a big man but has shown neither that nor ability against the run. I wonder if his time is up unless he sheds the scales from his eyes and has a blinder in camp (if there is one).

Of those others have mentioned, Lowry isn’t going anywhere because he is almost all dead money if he does. Moreover, he isn’t a run stuffer DT type and was, I suspect, used only because Adams was presumably worse.

Lancaster was a disappointment last year. He regressed. His role is to plug the middle. If he can’t do that it’s time to move on. If we expect him to flow to the ball, well we should look instead at those around him and the coach. I expect competition and he should need to fight hard to win it. I don’t know that his functional strength is ideal.

EQ was not over impressive in camp and then got injured. I don’t think he goes anywhere unless the group performance above him simply forces him out. Of all the WR carried over not named Adams, he is the most versatile. I think therefore he makes the roster unless 5 or 6 clearly outplay him.

I’d also add Alex Light. It’s hard to end a career on one horrid game, but he was made to look inadequate. If Taylor is kept, I think I would rather he started at Tackle than Light based upon that performance. In reality, Turner or Madison with Taylor sliding in to guard is more likely. However, I think Taylor is more than likely not goingto be around for cap reasons. I expect Leglue to give Light a very strong push. He is perhaps even more versatile and possessed of a higher upside.

It all depends on what Gute drafts.

In 1982 the NFL had a strike, The season was 9 games. Heck yes, were going watch some football.

Except for MVS we lose nothing if we chuck the other 4 players now.
I would give MVS another shot during TC. If he can’t cut it again let him go as well. These are pretty much JAGS and easily replaced. Everyone stay strong and stay well. Thanks, Since ‘61

Well, just for the Cap alone, there will be a fair amount of roster churn. Most of these guys would be on the bubble anyway for that fact alone. Couple of short points. Both Burks and Jackson were not ready to play till mid season. Core injuries do that to a body. Both players lost what amounts to two full seasons. Burks was a little farther ahead than Jackson, but not by much. Jackson moved to safety and the slot by the Raider game on the Packers west coast swing. That was his first real action in over a year and a half. Same with Burks. To say these guys had some bad breaks would be a gross understatement. How much they are valued is an unknown right now. But there must have been something the front office and Pettine saw in them, otherwise both would have been released already. Forgive me for sounding like a broken record here, but the Packers are a rebuilding team, and rebuilding teams as a rule take more risks. The question remains is how much risk does Gute assume with Rodgers window, and a path to the Superbowl still open. I don't know, but Gute has nine (or 10?) draft choices this year. So we will find out.

Why would we think of keeping mediocre players. Youve got the draft and free agency. I can see someone needing del in year one. After that, adios sucker if after two years you havent shown anything.
The best coaches do this.

Jackson is slow? No way, no one questioned that prior to he being drafted.....And then the "Packer experts" fell all over themselves when Ted Thompson pulled a "Martellus Bennett / Lance Kendricks" like coup and snagged him the second. The brass in the NFL is just not that smart and prone to believing in the "eye test" as opposed to hard data. Jackson's speed related numbers were too low for an NFL CB and believe it or not, that has proven to be true. Who knew..

I hate to see any Packer Lose their job but it goes without saying that if these five players are not on the active roster come game one, we probably upgraded the team.

All will be gone , waste of a second round pick, what’s puzzling is M Adams, I remember him at Auburn he was a beast, I believe he was never coached right or understood the defense. Shame

good one