{"id":2001,"date":"2025-04-26T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T19:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/2001\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T19:21:09","slug":"packers-select-oklahoma-state-dl-collin-oliver-in-5th-round-no-159-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers select Oklahoma State DL Collin Oliver in 5th round, No. 159 overall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREEN BAY \u2013 The Packers went back-to-back on pass rushers on Day 3 of the draft, selecting Oklahoma State&#8217;s Collins Oliver in the fifth round at No. 159 overall.<\/p>\n<p>That choice came one round after Green Bay added Texas edge rusher Barryn Sorrell to the mix in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver (6-2, 240) is a three-time, second-team All-Big 12 Conference selection from 2021-23 whose final collegiate season was shortened to just two games due to a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p>On the smaller side for an edge rusher in the NFL, Oliver came on the scene strong in 2021, earning Freshman All-America honors and being named Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year with 11\u00bd sacks among 15\u00bd tackles for loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma City native followed that up with five sacks among 7\u00bd TFLs in 2022, and then six sacks among a team-best 15\u00bd TFLs in &#8217;23.<\/p>\n<p>He ran a 4.56-second 40-yard dash at the scouting combine, an impressive time at 240 pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY \u2013 The Packers went back-to-back on pass rushers on Day 3 of the draft, selecting Oklahoma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2010,2011,2012,508,7,34,132,270,507,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2025pick159","9":"tag-collin-oliver","10":"tag-draft-collin-oliver","11":"tag-draft-tracker-card","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-homepage-cp","14":"tag-news-2025-draft","15":"tag-news-draft","16":"tag-news-national-feature","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114405892847124706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}