In a rare year, most experts graded the Packers' draft better than the drafts of all three inferior NFC North teams. Those teams must've made some truly horrific selections if you listen to some Packers fans on twitter who were fit to be tied because the Packers took an offensive lineman in the second who the consensus board (the consensus board is the average ranking of non-NFL people for each draftable player) said should go in the third. The horror. Draft grades are obviously nonsense but why not bask in the glory of being in a division full of bad drafters? This year at least. Let's get into the picks! 

Bears

The only thing funnier than the reports that the Bears were desperately trying to trade up in the first to take a running back is that they failed and took a tight end instead. Not only did they take a tight end, but in their run-first Ben Johnson offense, they took a tight end who, according to Lance Zierlein, "is unlikely to ever become more than average as a blocker." Yikes. 

Next, they took Luther Burden, a receiver who may have been off Green Bay's board altogether due to character/effort concerns, and Ozzy Trapilo, a tackle from Boston College. Burden is a slot only (remember their first pick was a tight end who can probably only be used in 12 personnel) receiver who excels at forcing broken tackles and Trapilo, at 6'8" and 316 pounds, is a massive right tackle who, interestingly, also is not great at run blocking. 

Other interesting picks include Shemar Turner, a defensive tackle who will likely be better in the NFL than he was in college because of that weird Texas A&M defensive system and Kyle Monangai, a seventh-round running back. Many people, including me, assumed the Bears would make running back their main priority in this draft but they just couldn't make it happen. 

Vikings

The Vikings' draft was almost universally panned but that's to be expected when you only have one pick in the first 100 and you use it to reach on a guard. "Reach" is sort of a semantics thing here because Donovan Jackson surely wouldn't have been there in the third when the Vikings were next on the board, but the Vikings' pick is when teams were going crazy sending a future first to move up. You're telling me it wouldn't be worth a future first to get Donovan Jackson or maybe the next-best guard in the second? Give me a break. 

Jackson the player is probably a good pick. He played tackle and guard in college and was good at both, he fits the Vikings' system and their only true need was guard. Good choice! Just be smarter about trading down with your analytics GM next time. 

The next pick was one of about 57 4.3 receivers to go in the third and fourth rounds. That number is an estimate. Tai Felton would probably have been a good fit for the Packers too. He is a good downfield threat at receiver.

The most interesting thing about the other picks is that none were in the secondary. The Vikings lost a safety in free agency and the other one was born in the 1980s. Their corners are suspect outside of Byron Murphy who had his first healthy season ever last year. It's hard when you ditch all your picks before the draft, but I would've expected a defensive back.

Lions

The best thing about the Lions' draft is that I predicted one of their picks, but there's no time to talk about that now, because get this: they used their first-round pick on a nose tackle. 

Possibly the most Lions thing to ever happen. Never mind that nose tackle is the lowest-paid non-specialist position in the league. Never mind that one of the best in the league last year, TJ Slaton, was drafted in the fifth and almost all other great nose tackles are taken late in the draft, never mind that they signed DJ Reader in free agency and gave Alim McNeil a massive contract, the Lions have to do what they have to do. Whew. 

Their other picks were fine. Tate Ratledge (that's the one I predicted) is the most athletic guard in the draft and they doubled up with Miles Frazier in the fourth. They will almost certainly get a solid starter out of those two. Isaac TeSlaa was one of the biggest consensus board reaches in the draft and they used an extra pick to move up for him. 

The Lions are going to do what they want and that often means being divorced from the consensus board because they obviously value the run game more than NFL bloggers do. So far it has worked. We'll see if they've gone too far this time.