Packers selected Kentucky C Jager Burton with the No. 153 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.

25 April 2026

Burton (6’4/312) is a grizzled multi-position interior lineman who finally found his footing at center in 2025, posting a career-best 71.3 overall PFF grade with a strong 79.5 pass-blocking mark while not allowing a single sack across 426 pass-blocking snaps. Burton’s experience shows up in his efficiency, surrendering just 12 total pressures in 2025 (98.6 pass-blocking efficiency) while demonstrating improved poise handling interior movement and late pressure looks. His 9.88 RAS underscores a high-end athletic profile for the position, pairing elite speed (4.94s forty, 98th percentile) with excellent short-area agility (90th percentile shuttle) that translates to reach blocks, pulls, and second-level range in zone-heavy schemes. Burton wins with quickness off the ball, fluid lateral movement, and the ability to refit his hands versus power, though his average core strength limits his ability to consistently anchor against NFL-caliber nose tackles. In the run game, he’s more of a positional wall-off blocker than a true people-mover, relying on angles and footwork rather than displacement power, which can cap his effectiveness in gap-heavy systems. While consistency in mental processing and sustain still needs refinement, Burton projects as a versatile interior option whose athletic profile and positional flexibility give him a pathway to develop into a starting-caliber zone-scheme center.