The 11th quarterback off the board will be Tulane passer Michael Pratt. After waiting around for six rounds, Pratt gets selected at No. 245 overall in the seventh round by the Packers.
In college, Pratt was a four-year starter for the Green Wave. He earned Freshman All-American honors in 2020, starting nine games during the COVID-19 pandemic-shortened season. His most productive season came two years later when Pratt earned second-team All-AAC honors with 3,010 passing yards, 27 passing touchdowns, and only five interceptions, adding 478 yards and 10 scores on the ground. He followed that up with first-team All-AAC and ACC Offensive Player of the Year honors, despite not matching his prior year numbers.
In Green Bay, Pratt will work to earn a role as a backup behind starter Jordan Love. Pratt’s game matches up decently with Love’s style of play, but he’ll have to compete with fellow seventh-round pick Alex McGough, who came out of Florida International in 2018, and last year’s fifth-round pick Sean Clifford out of Penn State. McGough has yet to make an NFL appearance despite getting drafted six years ago. Clifford took the primary backup position for the Packers in 2023, making two regular season, garbage time appearances as a rookie and doing the same in the team’s win over the Cowboys in the postseason.
Pratt will have an opportunity to push Clifford for the backup role. Despite his late-Day 3 selection, he was projected to go in the third or fourth round, so the talent is clearly there. If he fails to beat out Clifford, Pratt should have a decent chance to beat out McGough for a practice squad spot and a chance to be elevated on gamedays as the Packers’ emergency quarterback.
Pratt was not the 11th best QB in this draft. He was top 8 easily. Good value in the 6th round.
Even better value in 7th round which is where they got him
Nice pick