Fixing the Green Bay Packers Defense Must Start at Safety

January 7, 2014   ·   Zach Kruse   ·   Jump to comments

The calamitous season turned in by the safeties of the Green Bay Packers should make it very clear where general manager Ted Thompson needs to begin his defensive fix. 
After an offseason of standing pat at the position, Thompson now needs to pick a safety high in the 2014 NFL draft or get active in free agency. No longer can the Packers sugarcoat the deficiencies of the position, hoping for development from the group of safeties already on the roster.
That was the plan in 2013, and it backed fired badly.
Green Bay was content entering this past season with Morgan Burnett, M.D. Jennings, Jerron McMillian and Chris Banjo as the team's four safeties. Sean Richardson would later be added. 
A third-round pick in 2010, Burnett was expected to take a tangible jump in his fourth season. Thompson banked on such an improvement, giving the 24-year-old safety a four-year extension worth $24.75 million, with $8.25 million guaranteed, in mid-July. 
Thompson h...

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