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Seventh Round: Packers Draft CB Carrington Valentine

"I feel I’m the best press-man corner in this draft class," Kentucky cornerback Carrington Valentine, a seventh-round draft pick by the Packers, said.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers drafted Kentucky cornerback Carrington Valentine with the first of their four seven-round picks in the 2023 NFL Draft.

Valentine played three seasons at Kentucky, including two as a starter. His lone interception came in 2022, when he set a career high with 11 passes defensed. He was purely a perimeter cornerback with just 19 career snaps in the slot.

During his final season, he gave up a 55.4 percent completion rate and four touchdowns, according to Pro Football Focus.

"I feel I’m the best press-man corner in this draft class. I went against the best competition in the country — the SEC," Valentine told SI’s Wildcats Today. "Compared to all the guys who are getting the hype and stuff like that, with how I covered those guys, compared to them, it looks different and it is different. I just feel like you can turn on the tape and look at it."

Valentine measured 5-foor-11 5/8 and 193 pounds. He ran his 40 in 4.44 seconds with a 39-inch vertical.

“I'm a competitor, someone who's durable,” he said. “A lockdown corner that's going to frustrate receivers. A good overall person and someone who's really willing to learn. I'm only 21, so I'm still learning things and I'm never going to stop wanting to learn. Someone you can count on and someone who's going to come in and try to make a difference on the team in some way.”

This story will be updated.

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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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