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Packers’ Picks Rank Toward Bottom of Rookie of Year Odds

Where do Day 2 draft picks Luke Musgrave, Jayden Reed and Tucker Kraft sit in the opening NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year odds?

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GREEN BAY, Wis. – Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson is the favorite to be NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, while the Green Bay Packers’ draft picks are the long shots.

In FanDuel Sportsbook’s opening odds, Robinson is +300 to win the award, followed by the three first-round quarterbacks: the Carolina Panthers’ Bryce Young at +460 and the Houston Texans’ C.J. Stroud and Indianapolis Colts’ Anthony Richardson at +700.

Seattle Seahawks receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who was available to the Packers at No. 13, was +900, as is Detroit Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs. Minnesota Vikings receiver Jordan Addison is +1400.

What about Green Bay’s rookies? They are well off the pace, perhaps due to the unknown that is new starting quarterback Jordan Love.

Receiver Jayden Reed, the second of the second-round picks, is +8000. He was the sixth receiver off the board but has the 11th-shortest odds.

Rashee Rice, who was drafted five picks after Reed later by the Kansas City Chiefs is +4000.

Jalin Hyatt, who was drafted by the New York Giants 23 picks after Reed, is +3000.

Cedric Tillman, who was drafted by the Cleveland Browns 28 picks after Reed, is +5000.

Josh Downs, who was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts 29 picks after Reed, is +6000.

Tight end Luke Musgrave, the first of the Packers’ second-round picks, is +10000. The fourth tight end off the board, he is tied for the fourth-shortest odds at the position.

Buffalo Bills first-round pick, who the Packers could have had at No. 13, is the front-runner at the position at +4000. The Detroit Lions’ Sam LaPorta and the Las Vegas Raiders’ Michael Mayer, who went with back-to-back picks early in the second round, are +6000.

Darnell Washington, who was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers 51 picks after Musgrave is tied with Musgrave +10000.

Green Bay’s third-round tight end, Tucker Kraft, who was taken 15 picks before Washington, is not listed.

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BILL HUBER

Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.

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