Former eighth selection of NFL -draft visit Packers

Green Bay, Wisconsin – Linebacker Isaiah Simmons, who was the eighth election of the NFL design of 2020 by the Arizona Cardinals, visits Green Bay Packers, according to Ian Rapoport from NFL Network.

Simmons spent the last two seasons at the New York Giants. He started a game last season and was the Special Teams Player of the week of the NFC of the week after a game clinching blocked the field goal.

Simmons is a phenomenal talent. In the 2020 Scouting Combine he measured 6-foot 3 5/8 and 239 pounds. He ran his 40 in 4.39 seconds and had a vertical jump of 39 inches.

With excellent physical tools, it would be a fascinating addition to Green Bay’s limited deep card.

The Packers have only five liners on the squad, with Quay Walker, Edgerrin Cooper, Isaiah McDuffie, Ty’ron Hopper and Kristian Welch’s return. The packers could only take five into the regular season, but they would need at least eight to get through the low season and the training camp.

Simmons will turn to the right at the start of the training camp

In combination with his college production, he won the Butkus Prize as a top linacker of the nation at Clemson in 2019 was an early choice in the first round.

Simmons started seven games as a rookie in 2020 to get all-rookie honors, all 17 games in 2021 when he had 105 duels and four forced Fumbles and 13 games in 2022 when he had 99 duels and two interceptions.

Production was great, but the consistency was not. After the draft of 2023, the cardinals rejected its option for the fifth year. Late in the training camp, they exchanged him against the Giants for a single choice in the seventh round.

He played in all 34 games with New York, where he played his rookie contract in 2023 and signed again in 2024, but started only five game four times in 2023 and once in 2024.

Simmons is just a line backer in the name. With his size and sportiness, he was used here, there and everywhere.

“In our heads he would be a nickel of the first, second down and then in third place money (Dime-Linebacker)” Hard knock.

Among his 181 defensive snapshots for the Giants last season, PFF listed him as a slot corner for 86 and as a box defender for 73. In 2022 with the cardinals, his 897 snapshots 409 409 contained in the slot, 297 in the box, 110 in the line of defense, 53 in free security and 28 as cornerback.

Said Giants Cornerback Dru Phillips: “In spring I looked at him and thought: ‘How will he do that?’ He’s just so big, but you see him out there to cover boys like (recipient) Wan’dale Robinson and what is not.

Simmons went from an unchanged recruit – Clemson trainer Dabo Swinney had never heard of him until shortly before the national signing day.

As security in 2017, Simmons led the tigers in snapshots per duel. In 2018 he switched to a hybrid position from Nickel/Linebacker before switching full -time to LineBacker in 2019. The payment? He won the Butkus Prize as a top linacker of the nation. Simmons was Clemson’s first Butkus winner and six-stone all-American. He became the first player since Khalil Mack in 2013, who had over 100 duels, more than 16 duels against losses, eight sacks and several interceptions in one season.

“I would do everything in college,” he said. “A bit like a Swiss army knife, move around because I can then show what I can really do. I would not say that I am really tied to a position (defensive coordinator Brent) Venables really used me in a very special way that most people cannot be used.”

This story is updated.