Green Bay Packers News: Brian Gutekunst makes an attempt to fix offensive line

The Packers have signed not one ( Cordell Volson ), not two ( Laken Tomlinson ), but three ( Mekhi Becton ) linemen that nobody else wanted to put on their 53-man roster. Checkmate, everybody else. Contender status has been restored in Green Bay .

Color me underwhelmed by the Packers' sudden urgent desire to fix their offensive line. Though Brian Gutekunst has seemingly answered fans' pleas to add to the offensive line, we should have healthy skepticism about any lineman available in late September. The last few seasons of NFL football have shown the world the value of a good offensive line (and the Packers have shown what can happen with a bad one, for that matter), and I don't think anybody's just letting good prospects sit at home on their couch when they play a position as important as we understand the line to be.

Still, at least they're doing something, right? The Packers' trio of offensive line acquisitions are all former starters. Not all of their previous work is good, mind you, and Tomlinson in particular is well into the "journeyman" phase of his career, though he was once a Pro Bowl caliber player. They may be limited now, but each of them has a more impressive resume than anyone the Packers have put on the field at guard to this point. Even if Tomlinson's Pro Bowl came when Donovan Jennings still had two seasons of college ball to go, he's a far sight more accomplished than his younger counterpart.