It’s fair to say that remaining on the board until the fifth round and going after five other quarterbacks wasn’t the way that quarterback Brett Hundley saw his draft experience playing out, but he found a positive spin to put on his Day Three selection by the Packers.
Hundley said that he thought he’d be drafted in the second or third round and said your “expectations are hurt” when things don’t play out the way you have them in your mind. Now he’s going to Green Bay where he can learn from Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy while working to show the rest of the league that they were wrong to leave him hanging for so long.
“It’s a blessing in disguise and you know I have a chip on my shoulder, and I’m coming in to work, and that’s what I’ve come down to,” Hundley said, via the Green Bay Press-Gazette. “I’m just coming in, I’ve got my opportunity. That’s the way I look at it. It’s a blessing in disguise. You always have expectations of going No. 1 or high in the draft, but everything happens for a reason, and that’s how I look at it. If I’m supposed to be here, this is where I’m supposed to be, and I’m going to make the most of it.”
Packers director of player personnel Eliot Wolf said he was “shocked” Hundley was available with the 147th pick and that unexpected drop is why General Manager Ted Thompson sent a seventh-round pick to New England to move up for a quarterback he didn’t have designs on taking. Coach Mike McCarthy said Hundley had “a lot to work with” and he’ll try to use those skills to land the backup job this summer.