I like the 1st round pick. When you lose your starter at CB & the best off the bench, you have to use a high pick. --- If you can't at least slow down the opponent's passing game, you lose.

Another playmaker on the back end... I'll take it! Can't have enough of them these days. We will get our ILB.

[Just prior to the Packer pick]

My friend: "So, what are you hoping for here?

Me: "I'm not picky, I would be happy with defensive line, ILB, CB."

TV: "The Packers select Damarious Randall, Safety, Arizona State"

Me: "Huh............so............huh...............interesting."

Is this our slot corner for the next 5 years?

So, he's going to be a better corner than Jalen Collins?

Malcolm Brown and Randy Gregory sitting there for the taking… I don't know why I even bother watching the first round of the draft anymore. Ted's record in early rounds pretty dicey. Guess I'll tune in Saturday to see which Pro Bowlers we're adding.

Well Ted definitely threw us a curve ball here. I hope he knows what he's doing cause we needed a cover corner ...and got a safety. I'm so confused...oh and Anthony is gone now how awesome. If we don't get Kendricks Dawson McKinney or Perryman this draft is lame. Not to act like the sky is falling but the ILBs are about to pour off the board and if we don't act fast it's gonna be a looooong Friday.

Ted Thompson is at the podium. "We feel fortunate we were able to draft Damarious Randall that late." Obviously TT thinks very highly of DR.

Heard that DR was the best defensive back at ASU and also played outfielder in baseball which probably convinced TT of his coverage ability.

I am also convinced that the Packers' secondary is now as strong as can be.

Watching some vids of randall, his coverage skills and football instincts are obvious. He reminds me of a faster Casey Hayward, and that's someone very valuable IMO. I'm happy with the pick.

Ok, maybe I'm blind, but I can't seem to find him in CHTV's top 100 list on their draft guide. Was curious to see where they ranked him overall, but I'm starting to think he got overlooked for some radon on that list...

It isn't that Randall can't become a fine CB in the NFL. He has definite strengths and a few concerns, and he will have a good coach in Whitt. The issue for me is whether he was close to being the best prospect available. I would have thought Malcom Brown was BPA by a wide margin. I view Randall as a need pick. If he is a reach, it is not much since I think someone would have picked him in the next handful of picks. I don't have a problem with passing on Gregory at all.

I really didn't expect TT to say anything else. My question is how long do we have to wait for this guy to develop? The higher level is no longer the issue with Ted.

Just what we need another short db who cant tackle. Megatron is licking his lips. Meanwhile the middle stays soft. no inside linbacker to cover te or stop the run.

I think this will be a good pick. I don't know as much about Randall as other prospects because he was mostly viewed as a S and to be honest I wasn't looking at safety's.

But his flexibility and versatility to be able to play Corner/Safety will be a very good asset to our defense.

The more I see of him, the more I like. He could be another play making type of player that we need in the secondary.

No ILB was worthy of a first round pick. I was upset that Ted didn't draft Brown. He looked like a great value at a need position. I will say that for a guy who supposedly can't tackle, Randall sure makes a lot of them. 106 last season - more than Landon Collins. But there is no doubt he was picked to play CB not Safety.

We could have traded back into the early second round took Denzel Perryman than took Randall later.

Kinda had a couple beers in me last nite so I was a little moody. Today thinking about this pick sober ...yup still pissed haha.

Horrible pick. An undersized DB in a conference filled with power receivers. He's an Ahmad Carroll clone. Remember how that worked?

Let's hope TT can work his usual magic in the mid rounds and salvage this draft.

For me its simple. I am not the Packers GM, thank God.

I never would have drafted Aaron Rodgers, Jordy Nelson, or Clay Matthews. We already had Brett Favre, Matthews lacked experience, and we had (Driver, Jennings, and Jones, and Finley to catch the ball).

This is why I don't fault anything in the draft until years down the road.

Can we finally do away with the myth that TT will take the BPA? Brown was a top 10-20 player and with Raji and Guion both on 1 year deals, I'd have taken Malcolm Brown like that genius in N.E. did. Then again, I'm not paid to make those decisions so once again, in Ted& Co. I'll trust.

Randall is a gamble in the sense that TT believes he's an elite corner prospect. Here's the test. If Shields is covering Alshon Jeffrey, can Randall cover Kevin White one-on-one?

The pick lives or dies on the answer to that question.

Now they have another "hands guy" for the onside kick team. :) Too soon?

I'm not a big ted fan. Why does he shy aware from the 6'1 guys! Another marginal guy 5'10 at best guy who is a poor tackler and avoids contact! Well see! I just hope he doesn't stand on the goal line and watch the guy standing next to him catch the winning pass aka haha jokes on the packers!

In the end, I'd say Ted's gamble on Randall is 50-50. Either he's going to be an excellent corner, or he's going to be a 1st round special teams ace.

Is TT trying to make me forgive ASU for their failed win vs UW from 2013? Welcome to the team, Kid, but I'm still angry about that one.

Do not dislike pick, TT has his reasons but I do wonder what he thought of Malcolm Brown and Eddie Goldman.

My God we are an amazingly egotistical bunch. What makes us think that by watching a few videos...maybe a couple of games...we know more about how Randall fits this team better than Ted Thompson, Mike McCarthey, Dom Capers, and Joe Whitt?? These are guys that have done a little work on this draft class. These are guys who have been around football a while (not just watching it 8 hours a weekend, going to a few games, and spewing venom on a blog). Are they going to hit 'em all? Hell no. But for give them a little credit for knowing what they are doing. The number of people on here who assume they know a lot more about football, football teams and football players is really amazing to me.