Watch: Packers defensive assistants talk about their draft picks

Green Bay's defensive assistant coaches talk about first-round picks Rashan Gary and Darnell Savage, fifth-round pick Kingsley Keke and seventh-round pick Ty Summers.
Watch: Packers defensive assistants talk about their draft picks
Watch: Packers defensive assistants talk about their draft picks /

On Thursday, the Green Bay Packers' 2019 draft class made their NFL debuts in a preseason game against Houston.

On Friday, their assistant coaches spoke about what they witnessed. In order, it's outside linebackers coach Mike Smith talking about first-round pick Rashan Gary, defensive backs coach Jason Simmons on first-round pick Darnell Savage, defensive line coach Jerry Montgomery on fifth-round pick Kingsley Keke and inside linebackers coach Kirk Olivadotti on Ty Summers.


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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.