The Packers didn’t draft a quarterback in their six-player class. They are signing one they had in town on a top-30 predraft visit.
Green Bay has agreed to terms with Virginia Tech quarterback Kyron Drones, an undrafted free agent, Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports.
Drones and Texas Tech’s Behren Morton were the only quarterbacks to take top-30 pre-draft visits with the Packers. The Patriots selected Morton in the seventh round.
Drones spent his first two seasons at Baylor before transferring to Virginia Tech. In three years with the Hokies, he completed 58.3 percent of his passes for 5,566 yards and 44 touchdowns. He rushed for 1,798 yards and 20 touchdowns, giving him 7,364 total yards and 64 total touchdowns.
He joins a quarterbacks room with Jordan Love, Desmond Ridder and Kyle McCord.
Florida’s Trey Smack became the first kicker off the board in the e 2026 NFL draft.
The Packers made him a sixth-round pick, No. 216 overall.
Smack joins Brandon McManus and Lucas Havrisik on the roster. McManus made 24-of-30 field goals, with a long of 56, and he missed one extra point.
The Packers drafted Anders Carlson in the sixth round in 2023, but he missed 11 kicks in his rookie season and never played for them again after that.
Smack is a two-time Groza semifinalist and one of only three FBS kickers to make five field goals of 50-plus yards in 2025. He made a 57-yarder in the Shrine Bowl.
Smack made 82.8 percent of his kicks in college.
The Packers used their first-round pick in the 2026 NFL draft last year, in the trade for Micah Parsons. In the second round, the Packers finally made a pick.
With the 52nd overall pick, the Packers selected South Carolina cornerback Brandon Cisse.
Cisse has good speed and showed off impressive leaping ability at the Scouting Combine, and the Packers think he’s going to be able to match up with NFL wide receivers.
Green Bay will have high hopes that Parsons and Cisse are two big pieces of their defense for years to come.
The Packers and wide receiver Jayden Reed have agreed to a three-year contract extension worth $50.25 million in new money, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.
The deal includes $20 million guaranteed.
Reed, who turns 26 next week, was entering the final year of his rookie deal. He was scheduled to make a $1.729 million base salary with a $2.285 million salary cap hit.
The Packers made Reed a second-round pick in 2023, the same draft that they made Dontayvion Wicks a fifth-round choice. In 2022, the team drafted Christian Watson in the second round and Romeo Doubs in the fourth, and last year, the Packers took Matthew Golden in the first round and Savion Williams in the third.
The Packers are now building around Reed, Watson, Golden and Williams, as Doubs and Wicks departed this offseason.
Reed played only seven games last season, breaking his collarbone in Week 2, and he made 19 catches for 207 yards and a touchdown.
The Packers don’t have a first-round pick on Thursday night, but General Manager Brian Gutekunst gave a little hint about what direction they’ll be going on Friday and Saturday.
Cornerback was a big enough need late last season that Gutekunst claimed Trevon Diggs off of waivers from the Cowboys, but he was released in January after appearing in two games for the team. They signed Benjamin St-Juste last month to go with Keisan Nixon and Carrington Valentine, but Gutekunst said this week that the team needs to add more bodies to the mix as they head toward training camp.
“Some of our young guys, I’m interested to see with our new coaching staff how they adapt to what we’re going to ask them to do,” Gutekunst said, via the team’s website. “But we do need to add some numbers there.”
The Packers’ highest current pick is No. 52 and they have seven other picks that can be used to address corner and other areas before the draft is over.
