Packers' Benjamin Morrison dreams go up in smoke thanks to conference rival

So much for home-field advantage.

For almost five months, the Packers have been trying to find Jaire Alexander's replacement. The two sides didn't exactly end the season on a great note, and there's been a non-stop flow of tweets and rumors and blogs about how they're going to separate. There have even been tweeted rumors in blogs about it.

And yet, as of Friday night, Alexander's still on the roster. Before the draft, Packers GM Brian Gutekunst said a whole lot of nothing about where the two sides are at in the process, but it certainly didn't sound like either party's stance had softened all that much.

None of that mattered, though, because obviously the Packers were going to land their shutdown corner of the future in the draft this year. And that shutdown corner was probably going to be Notre Dame's Benjamin Morrison. It was all going to go exactly as planned. Right? That was going to happen? And since the draft is in Green Bay this year obviously everything was going to work out? I was told that was going to be the case this year. What's the point of hosting the draft if you don't get the home field calls?

Benjamin Morrison would be the perfect Jaire Alexander replacement if he wasn't on the Bucs

Ah! Well, nevertheless. I guess like the old adage goes, if you can't draft a cornerback in the second round, you may as well draft an offensive tackle.

Anthony Belton is probably going to help in a non-insignificant way next year, but he's not Benjamin Morrison. The Packers still have something of a cornerback dilemma to deal with, and I'm not totally sure that 'not drafting any cornerbacks at all' is the best way to approach it.

Maybe there will still be an elite cornerback available to them in [checks notes] 40-something picks. The Bucs are so annoying.