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off day of training camp? Here are four names to watch." />Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesAcme Packing Company homepageHorizontal - WhiteAcme Packing Companya Green Bay Packers communityFollow Acme Packing Company online:Follow Acme Packing Company on TwitterFollow Acme Packing Company on FacebookFollow Acme Packing Company on InstagramLog in or sign upLog InSign UpSite searchSearchSearchAcme Packing Company main menuFanpostsFanshotsSectionsPackersOddsAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 321 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections The APC PodcastPackers Film RoomFantasy Football AdviceCDTThe Green Bay Packers are off on Monday Justin Vogel Jersey , taking a break from training camp after a heavy four-day workload. As a result, APC is taking a quick look back at those first four practices of training camp. Although the Packers have had a few surprising absences early on in camp — Mike Daniels and Darnell Savage come to mind, though for very different reasons — that has opened up opportunities for other players farther down the depth chart to impress.Meanwhile, a few players have shown some expanded capabilities compared to what they showed a year ago and the new offensive scheme seems to fit a handful of individuals better than Mike McCarthy’s old offense.With all of those factors in play, let’s take a look at four players who are seeing their stocks trending upward — whether in terms of their odds of making the roster improving, their potential role on the team expanding, or both — after the team’s first batch of practices.Montravius Adams, defensive linemanWhen the Packers set Mike Daniels loose on Wednesday, that opened up the three-technique spot on the starting three-man line. Adams, who took many of the first-team reps in the offseason with Daniels sitting out, has stepped back in there with the ones in training camp and looks like he belongs.Defensive coordinator Mike Pettine said as much in his Monday press conference, naming Adams as the player on his unit who has improved the most since this point a year ago. In fact, Pettine flat-out said that his “opinion of (Adams) wasn’t real high” when taking the DC job in 2018, but that Adams has improved tremendously, starting midway through last season.“(It’s a) tribute to him, how he’s changed his body over the past year,” Pettine said of Adams, but he complimented the improvement the lineman has made in technique, the mental aspects of the game, and playing physically as well. With Adams coming on in the spring, that probably helped the Packers make the decision to move on from Daniels, and he appears to be picking up right where he left off with very good performances early on in camp.Raven Greene, safetyAnother player benefiting from an unexpected absence early in camp is Greene, who has stepped into the starting lineup at safety due to rookie Darnell Savage’s recovery from wisdom teeth extraction. The reshaping Greene has done to his body this offseason has been well-documented, but it is worth mentioning again that his upper body looks much bigger — in part due to his ending last season on injured reserve with an ankle injury.Now, with a bigger workload to start camp, Greene has staked a firm claim on the #3 safety job, vaulting ahead of Josh Jones in that area. Pettine noted that Greene’s confidence is arguably the second-year safety’s biggest remaining area for improvement, but getting those first-team reps should help with that.At this point Justin McCray Color Rush Jersey , it seems like it would take a massive collapse or an injury to keep Greene off the 53-man roster, and he should see significant playing time in the regular season on defense as well as on special teams.Robert Tonyan, tight endOn the other side of the football, the Packers have been seeing a new Big Bob in the tight end’s second training camp. A year ago, Tonyan was a converted receiver who was learning to play tight end but who was primarily a receiving weapon. Now, Tonyan has been getting a significant chunk of reps with the first team when they line up in 12 personnel. He has been continuing to impress as a receiver, but it is his improvement as an in-line blocker that has people buzzing.Offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett is among those excited for Tonyan’s second year, bringing up his run-blocking abilities on Monday. With Marcedes Lewis a free agent after this year and Jimmy Graham being a feasible salary cap casualty in 2020, the Packers need either Tonyan or rookie Jace Sternberger to show signs that they can be a starting-caliber in-line player. Furthermore, with Graham always being more of a receiver than a blocker, Tonyan’s improvement in this area is likely to be the fastest way for him to earn more playing time. He’s getting it now, and fans should get to see these improvements early on in preseason games.Danny Vitale, fullback“The muscle man has done a nice job, hasn’t he?” That was Hackett talking about Vitale (and officially acknowledging one of the better nicknames on the team). The fullback position appears to be an important one for Matt LaFleur, whose mentor Kyle Shanahan tends to feature the position pretty prominently. That has led to myriad opportunities for Vitale, which range from aligning as a traditional lead blocker to lining up split wide and everything in between.For the six-foot, 239-pound Vitale, it is important to remember that he was a versatile receiving weapon in college at Northwestern, playing a hybrid tight end/fullback/H-back role. To that end, he recorded at least 28 receptions, 288 yards, and better than a 10-yard-per-reception average in each of his four seasons.Vitale has made a handful of nice catches throughout the first few practices, including on Aaron Rodgers’ first completion of the summer on Thursday. If he sustains this level of play, he should continue to get lots of opportunities through the rest of camp to create mismatches and solidify his spot on the 53-man roster. GREEN BAY, Wis. — Having signed four potential starters in free agency, the Green Bay Packers enter this week’s draft looking to add the missing ingredients to a team that has missed the playoffs the last two seasons.“With some of the things that we’ve done, I think where our team sits today, I’m not super concerned about, ‘Hey https://www.thepackersfanshop.com/Marwin-Evans-Jersey , we absolutely have to do this or absolutely have to do that,'” general manager Brian Gutekunst said at a news conference Monday.More Packers coverage from FOX Sports WisconsinPhotos of the Week: 7/21/19 – 7/27/19Packers rookie Gary’s biggest critic is himselfTop Tweets: Former Badger TJ Watt has impressive four-year transformationPHOTOS: 2019 Green Bay Packers training campPackers’ Rodgers, LaFleur ironing out offense, building chemistry“We can sit back, see where the draft board is strong, try to get there and then take the best players available. … I think it’s a really good draft overall and I think we have a chance to help our team.”The Packers hold the 12th selection in Thursday’s first round. They haven’t had such an early pick since drafting defensive tackle B.J. Raji at No. 9 in 2009. Gutekunst’s maneuvering in the first round of last year’s draft bagged the 30th selection of the first round for this year. Including those picks, Green Bay has six selections in the first four rounds.Leading to the draft, Gutekunst added outside linebackers Za’Darius Smith and Preston Smith, safety Adrian Amos and offensive lineman Billy Turner. Those signings bolstered three of the Packers’ biggest areas of need. In turn, that eases the pressure on Gutekunst.“I do like our flexibility to be able to move around and not feel like we’re pigeon-holed to have to take a certain position or a certain player,” he said.One position where there is not an immediate need is quarterback, with 35-year-old Aaron Rodgers returning for his 15th season. Still, Gutekunst used one of his predraft visits on Missouri quarterback Drew Lock, who is considered a likely first-round pick. Gutekunst said there’s a measure of “subterfuge” in his use of the 30 predraft invitations. Then again, Brett Favre was 35 when then-general manager Ted Thompson drafted Rodgers in the first round in 2005.10<button class="view-gallery">View Gallery</button> Gallery:5-year analysis: Grading the Packers' 2014 draft“Every year, we spend a lot of time on the quarterbacks and trying to figure out what kinds of players those guys are going to be in the NFL,” Gutekunst said. “And it’s really, really important to us because, if you don’t have one, it’s really tough to win in this league. For us, it’s about trying to decide which are the guys that could potentially be starters in this league.”This will be Gutekunst’s second year running the draft but his first with new coach Matt LaFleur. While LaFleur is installing a new offense — that process will continue at the three-day minicamp that starts Tuesday — Gutekunst said has had “minimal” impact on the kind of players he’s been scouting.“You do this for as long as a lot of us have in that room, this is what you work all year for. It’s really exciting to have the ability to try to help your football team and add to that mix”In addition to the first round, the Packers have the 12th selection in each round. Plus, they have an additional picks in the fourth round (last year’s trade of safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix to Washington) and the sixth round (last year’s trade of quarterback Brett Hundley to Seattle).For Gutekunst and his staff, it’s almost show time. In the draft room, the board is locked behind curtains to prevent overanalysis. He allowed his scouts to spend Easter weekend with family.“You do get to this point where it’s a little dangerous to react too much,” he said. “And I wouldn’t imagine there would be a whole lot of tweaks between now and Thursday.”