Packers have all but ignored halfbacks in draft

Packers General Manager Ted Thompson takes an interesting approach to halfbacks in the NFL draft. He all but ignores them.In four of his five drafts in Green Bay, Thompson hasn't selected a halfback. Out of his 51 total Packers' draft picks, only two have been halfbacks, and both were taken in 2007 -- Brandon Jackson in the second round and DeShawn Wynn in the seventh round. That same year Thompson traded a 2008 sixth-round pick to the New York Giants for Ryan Grant, the Packers' current starter.It gets even more interesting in terms of the Packers' apparent disinterest in drafting halfbacks. In the five years prior to Thompson's arrival (2000-2004), the Packers drafted just one halfback -- Najeh Davenport was taken in the fourth round in 2002. If you want to get technical, Davenport was listed as a fullback coming out of Miami, but he was used by the Packers primarily as a backup halfback.So that means in a 10-year span, the Packers drafted just three halfbacks,...