The Green Bay Packers selected Kentucky center Jager Burton with the 153rd overall pick in the fifth round of the 2026 NFL Draft.
DRAFTED: The @packers take @jager_burton in the 5th round! pic.twitter.com/epEa9hCtMx
— BBN Tonight (@BBNTonight) April 25, 2026
Burton, a 6-foot-4, 312-pound interior lineman and Lexington, Kentucky, native who graduated from Frederick Douglass High School, brings extensive experience and positional flexibility to Green Bay after starting 47 career games for the Wildcats. He was very impressive at the NFL Combine where he ran a 4.94-second 40-yard dash with a 1.76-second 10-yard split and 4.52-second shuttle time.
Jager Burton is a OC prospect in the 2026 draft class. He scored an unofficial 9.91 RAS out of a possible 10.00. This ranked 7 out of 676 OC from 1987 to 2026.
— RAS.football (@MathBomb) March 1, 2026
Pending agilities and bench, times unofficial.https://t.co/zSBCaFHPDq pic.twitter.com/iTyrxCQy4i
Burton entered Kentucky as a four-star recruit in 2021. He was named Kentucky Gatorade Football Player of the Year as a high school senior at Frederick Douglass High School in Lexington, Kentucky, where he also won the Paul Hornung Award as the state's top player.
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