The Packers have started their pre-draft visits, reportedly setting up a date with wide receiver Ted Hurst.
Hurst, a 6-foot-4, 206-pound wide receiver out of Georgia State, is already in demand during visit season. In addition to meeting with the Packers, he has reportedly set up visits with the Colts and Falcons.
Hurst launched his college career at Division II Valdosta State, which you might recognize if you’re a true football nerd as the place where Hal Mumme developed and refined the offense we know as the Air Raid today. In two seasons there, Hurst caught 60 passes for 1,027 yards and 10 touchdowns. He then transferred to Georgia State prior to the 2024 season, where his career began to pick up a bit of steam.
Hurst had his best statistical season in 2024, reeling in 56 passes for 961 yards and nine touchdowns, earning some national attention in the process. He landed on Bruce Feldman’s Freaks list ahead of the 2024 season due to his 4.51-second 40-yard dash and 10-foot, 8-inch broad jump. He parlayed that athleticism into an even better statistical performance in 2025, catching 71 passes for 1,004 yards and six touchdowns.
As freakish as his athleticism may have been prior to his final college season, Hurst apparently unlocked a bit more during his final college season. He bettered both the numbers that caught Feldman’s attention at the NFL Combine, ripping off a 4.42-second 40-yard dash and an 11-foot, 3-inch broad jump. He didn’t run the agility drills, but the drills in which he did test earned him a Relative Athletic Score of 9.9. A freak indeed.
That athleticism has carried him steadily up draft boards this spring. In January, Hurst was number 110 on the NFL Mock Draft Database consensus big board. As of this writing, he’s climbed as high as 85, and he’s previously been as high as 75. Chances are, he’ll climb even higher as the pre-draft process wears on, as players with elite athleticism tend to do.
Outside of his athleticism, there are some concerns with Hurst. He only caught about 58% of his targets during his most productive season (according to charting from Pro Football Focus), and his contested catch rate was just a hair over 59%, lower than you might expect from a player with his frame. But Georgia State was, to say the least, a bit unsettled at quarterback during Hurst’s time there. The Panthers rotated through three different quarterbacks in 2024 and added two more in 2025; Hurst caught balls from five different passers in his college career. That would shake up anybody’s stats.
Overall, he profiles as a raw but athletic wide receiver prospect, and he certainly fits the mold of the big-bodied wide receiver the Packers have sought before. With plenty of long-term uncertainty on the wide receiver depth chart (five of the Packers’ top seven receivers are free agents after this year), this could be an interesting early indication of where the team is headed in this year’s draft.