The two defensive tackles that the Packers brought in are Kevin Hester Jr. and Justin Rogers. Among them, Rogers is probably the bigger name.<\/p>\n
In 2024, Rogers was drafted in the seventh round by the Dallas Cowboys, who let him go at cutdowns. From there, he signed with the Cincinnati Bengals\u2019 practice squad, but was poached by the Cowboys to bring him up to Dallas\u2019 53-man roster in December. He was kept on the team until June 18th, when he was waived. In July, Rogers signed with the Seattle Seahawks, where he lasted about a week.<\/p>\n
Per Pro Football Focus, the former Kentucky and Auburn player played 111 preseason snaps last year and earned an overall defensive grade of 57.8. He didn\u2019t get a single regular-season snap, despite being on the Cowboys\u2019 53-man roster toward the end of 2024.<\/p>\n
Hester played six years of college football at North Carolina, suiting up in 60 total games for the Tarheels. He went undrafted in April but received rookie minicamp tryouts with both the Kansas City Chiefs and Atlanta Falcons. Neither led to a signing. Since rookie minicamps, he has been worked out by the Arizona Cardinals, Houston Texans and now the Packers.<\/p>\n
Over the last four years, when he\u2019s received the majority of his snaps, PFF has graded Hester between a 60.0 and 64.7 overall defensive grade at the college level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two defensive tackles that the Packers brought in are Kevin Hester Jr. and Justin Rogers. Among them,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,2703,2702,20822,2704,20821,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-265794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-depth-chart","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","13":"tag-green-bay-packers-preseason","14":"tag-green-bay-packers-roster","15":"tag-green-bay-packers-training-camp","16":"tag-greenbay","17":"tag-greenbaypackers","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114980664376732718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265794","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=265794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}