Green Bay, Wisconsin – The force approach to the Numbers of Green Bay Packers at the Cornerback continued on Saturday with the signature of the Recrue not draft Garnett Hollis Jr.
While the team announced the move on Saturday, Hollis signed with the packers after a Friday training session.
Hollis spent a few weeks after the draft with the Titans of Tennessee. He played in 26 games in Northwestern from 2021 to 2023, when he recorded two interceptions and six defended passes – a choice and three passes defended in 2022 and 2023. He was transferred to Virginia -Western for his last season, and even if he did not intercep passes, he put a career in the career.
Packers also made the Adding the Ball Carrier Israel Abanikanda Derogations outside the 49ers. With two open points, no corresponding transaction was necessary.
Beyond Keisean Nixon, Nate Hobbs and Carrington Valentine, the packers have no corner half that played a instant defense in the NFL last season. The table of the depths rinsed with young players not announced, in particular the receiver / half of the BO Melton corner and four end -of -round choices (Gregory Junior in 2023, Kamal Hadden and Kalen King in 2024 and Micah Robinson in 2025). Tyron Herring is not drafted this year from Delaware.
Including a little action in the first year in 2021, Pro Football Focus accused Hollis of a career capture rate of 57.9%. In 2024, he granted 59.2% but granted 20.1 yards per capture and five courses in career.
Hollis had great hopes when he arrived in Virginie-Western. The highest hope.
In 2022, Beanie Bishop broke a pass for Minnesota, a Big Ten school. He was transferred to Virginia-Western for 2023 and won some All-American honors from the first team with four interceptions and the 24 best passes in the nation. He transformed this into a shot with the Pittsburgh steelers, for whom he played in 17 games with six departures as a recruit and intercepted four passes.
Hollis did not match this production or has become a choice of draft at the start of the round by following a big ten to Morantown path similar, but at least he set foot in the door of the NFL.
“He played a big role”, “ Hollis said of the bishop Last fall. “I was able to talk to him a little about the process. I just see him go from Big Ten to Big 12 and seeing his statistics, it was night and day. Me? I only had 37 targets last year in Big Ten and he had 24 broken passes alone in WVU, so you can see how many times it has been targeted than me. “
At the time, Virginia-Western secondary coach Shadon Brown thought Hollis could be a draft choice of day 2.
“Garnett gives you a guy who is large outside,” Brown said via 247 sports. “He is right at 6-2, 205 pounds. He does not look like a prototype corner that we have had here, but he is long, he can run, he can disturb the routes on the melee line. He gives us this big body where we can match where sometimes, even if great that these games do not occur.”
Hollis has an excellent size (6 feet 3/8) and an athletics above average (4.50 in the 40, 10 feet and 5 inches wide jump). Her Relative sports score was 8.26.
In Battle Ground Academy, the native of Nashville captured 86 assists for 1,295 yards and 21 affected in attack and had six interceptions. He was also three times in basketball three times.
“Basketball has always been my favorite sport,” Hollis said in Tennessean During his last year in BGA. “But I’m just much better in football. I always wanted to go to the NBA.
“I realized (football was my future) in college. It is much more difficult to arrive at the NBA than the NFL. With my body and my length, the NBA would be more difficult to reach. I know that I am a university football player, not a university basketball player.”
Although he did not make a huge difference in the field, he made a big difference. For each tackle, he gave money to a 16 -year -old boy who is fighting for cancer.
“I just heard your story, and it touched me a little because I had family members who had cancer”, “ Hollis said to the boyMaddox Potter, via social media.
