Packers Take A QB

The Green Bay Packers selected Louisville QB Brian Brohm with their 2nd round pick (56th) overall. Some may scratch there head at this one since they have said Aaron Rodgers is the man in 2008. The bottom line is that Green Bay needed a backup and at #56, Brohm was a great selection.

Brohm could have been a top 10 pick in the 2007 draft but went back to school and now he's a Packer.

It's good to know that Brohm has love for the state media already. In the middle of his initial conference call with about 100 members of the Wisconsin media, Brohm said after about two questions, "I gotta go and do and ESPN interview, I'll call you back" and he was gone. It was one of the greatest moments in my 14 years covering the draft in GB.

From Packers.com

CAREER NOTES: Brohm set Big East Conference career-record with 10,775 yards passing, topping the old mark of 9,565 yards by Ken Dorsey of Miami (1999-2002)...His 10,775 yards rank second in school annals behind Chris Redman's 12,541 yards (1996-99)...His pass completion percentage of .6582 rank behind Stefan LeFors (66.0 percent, 2001-04) on the school's all-time record chart...His interception percentage (2.03 percent) is also a Louisville all-time mark, breaking the previous record of 2.1 percent by LeFors...Ranks second in school history with 21 300-yard passing performances (set the Big East Conference record), surpassed by Chris Redman's 23 (1996-99)...Brohm's 71 TD passes are topped by Redman (84) and Dave Ragone (74, 1999-2002) in school annals and rank third in Big East history behind Ken Dorsey of Miami (86, 1999-2002) and Donovan McNabb of Syracuse (77, 1995-98)...His 10,819 yards in total offense are topped only by Redman (12,129) in UL history and established a Big East career-record, breaking the previous mark of 9,950 yards by Donovan McNabb of Syracuse (1995-98)...His 780 pass completions rank second in UL annals to Redman's 1,031 and only Redman (1,679) had more pass attempts for the Cardinals than Brohm's 1,185...His 30 TD passes in 2007 broke the school career-record of 29 that Redman set in 1998 and matched again in 1999...Only Rod Rutherford of Pittsburgh (37 in 2003) had more TD passes in a season in the Big East ...With 308 pass completions in 2007, Brohm joined Redman (309 in 1998, 317 in 1999) as the only players in Louisville history to complete more than 300 in a season...His 308 completions also topped the Big East season-record of 295 by Ryan Hart of Rutgers in 2004...His 473 pass attempts in 2007 tied Redman (1998) for second on the school's season-record list...He joined Redman (4,042 in 1998) as the only players in Louisville annals to throw for over 4,000 yards (4,024 in 2007), en route to topping the previous Big East season-record of 3,679 yards by Rod Rutherford of Pittsburgh in 2003...Brohm's 3,978 yards in total offense for 2007 was the second-best season total in school history behind Redman's 4,009 yards in 1998...It also topped the old conference record of 3,829 by Rutherford in 2003...His pass completion percentage of .688 in 2005 is topped only by Stefan LeFor's 73.5 percent in 2004 and established a new Big East mark, topping the old record of 65.1 percent by Ryan Hart of Rutgers in 2004...His five TD passes vs. Oregon State in 2005 and vs. Middle Tennessee State in 2007 rank second on the school's game-record list...Only Pete Gonzalez of Pittsburgh (seven vs. Rutgers in 1997), Devin Scott of Temple (six vs. Rutgers in 1999) and Marc Bulger of West Virginia (six vs. Pittsburgh in 1998) threw for more TDs in a game in Big East annals...His pass completion percentage of 81.8 in that 2005 Oregon State game was the second-best game total in school history...His passing efficiency rating of 288.24 vs. Oregon State in 2005 topped the old school game-record, and he later broke that mark with a 289.05 rating vs. Murray State in 2007...His passing efficiency rating of 157.92 is surpassed only by Chris Redman's 188.45 (1996-99) on the Cardinals' career-record list...Brohm's 45 pass completions vs. Syracuse in 2007 broke the old school game-record of 44 by Chris Redman vs. East Carolina in 1998 and the conference mark of 39 successful passes by Dan Orlovsky of Connecticut vs. Syracuse in 2004)...His 65 pass attempts vs. Syracuse also set a school game-record...Brohm's 555 yards passing in the Syracuse contest rank second on UL's game-record chart, topped only by Redman's 592 vs. East Carolina in 1998 and broke the old league record of 504 yards by Bryan Randall of Virginia Tech vs. Syracuse in 2002...The QB's 549 yards in total offense vs. Syracuse in 2007 broke the Big East Conference game-record...His 67 offensive plays in the 2007 Syracuse clash rank third on the Big East game-record chart behind Walter Washington of Temple (69 vs. West Virginia in 2003) and Tyler Palko of Pittsburgh (68 vs. Rutgers in 2005)...Brohm threw for four or more TDs eight times and threw two or more TDs in a game 18 times. 2007

SEASON: All-American Dream Team (third team) choice by The NFL Draft Report...Added second-team All-Big East Conference accolades for the second-straight season...Member of the Maxwell Award and Manning Award watch lists...Led the Big East and ranked eighth in the nation in pass efficiency (152.43 rating), as he also paced the league and ranked sixth nationally with an average of 331.5 yards per game in total offense...Ranked fourth in the country with an average of 335.33 yards passing per game, as his 4,024 yards passing was the sixth-best season total in the NCAA ranks...Placed tenth in the nation with an average of 25.67 pass completions per game and was second in the league with an average of 16.5 points responsible for per game...Completed 308 of 473 attempts (65.1 percent) for 4,024 yards, setting a school season-record with 30 touchdowns while also coming up with twelve interceptions...Lost 44 yards on 57 carries (-0.8 avg), but did score three times on the ground...Caught one pass for a 7-yard loss...On 530 offensive snaps, Brohm piled up 3,978 yards in total offense, the second-best season total in school annals...178 of his 308 pass completions produced first downs, as he helped convert 72-of-164 third-down snaps...54 of his completions went for 20 yards or longer.