The Green Bay Packers will have to make some interesting roster choices before the start of the 2024 NFL regular season. They have drafted well over the past few years and they are in prime position to make a run at a Super Bowl this season.
Green Bay is one of the youngest teams in the NFL. They will have a loaded offense led by quarterback Jordan Love. The Packers need to sign him to a contract extension before the start of the 2024 season. They will have other players that they will need to sign in the future.
One of the biggest questions that this football team will face this season is how well will the defense play this season. It has the chance to be better this season.
Former Green Bay Packers First-Round Pick Cornerback Eric Stokes Could Be a Candidate To Be Cut in 2024
Stokes has been doing well so far during OTAs for the Packers. At the moment, he is projected to be one of the starting cornerbacks on the roster along with Jaire Alexander. If Eric Stokes were to get hurt again during training camp, all bets are off for him potentially making the roster.
Randy Gruzi of Dairylandexpress.com thinks that Eric Stokes is one of three Packers draft busts who can very well be cut before the start of the 2024 season. Gruzi wrote:
“A first-round pick in 2021, Eric Stokes is one of many Georgia Bulldogs on the Packers’ defense. A star cornerback for the Bulldogs, Stokes turned heads when he ran a 4.28 40-yard dash during his Pro Day and Green Bay was thrilled to add that type of speed to their secondary.
During his first season, he played well enough to start 14 games and had 55 tackles, 14 pass defenses, and one interception. Then in 2022, his play started to decline and was made worse by an ankle injury that limited him to just nine games.
He started on the PUP list in 2023 after ending the previous season on the IR and then returned to the injured reserve when he suffered a hamstring injury in October. He returned in December but was sent back to the IR, playing a total of three games on the season.
Green Bay has doubts about Stokes, which is why they declined the fifth-year option in his rookie deal. Perhaps that motivated him because he’s been playing well so far in OTAs with head coach Matt LaFleur saying he’s “hitting some fast speeds.” He added that he and Christian Watson — another early pick who has had injury concerns — are in the best shape he’s seen.
Hopefully he can keep that up. But if not, he could be a candidate to be released since he’s spent so much time being unavailable.”
Some of the other cornerbacks on the Packers roster are Keisean Nixon, Carrington Valentine, Corey Ballentine, Robert Rochell, Kalen King, and Benny Sapp III. King was a seventh-round pick in the 2024 NFL Draft out of Penn State.
He is one of the cornerbacks to potentially watch out for in training camp for the Green Bay Packers. General manager Brian Gutekunst should have done a better job addressing the position this offseason. They could have drafted another cornerback in the earlier rounds of the 2024 NFL Draft but decided not to.
Eric Stokes needs to stay healthy during training camp. The Green Bay Packers will have a choice to make about him if he gets hurt again during training camp.
