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GREEN BAY — One of the great mysteries involving the Green Bay Packers is how they keep spending premium draft picks on defensive players and yet their defense never gets any better.

It’s been that way since the bottom fell out of the defense in 2011.

After the Packers completed still another defense-first draft Saturday, taking defenders with five of their eight picks, including both first-rounders, the amount of resources they have thrown at the defense is staggering.

In the past eight drafts, the Packers used 18 of their 24 picks in the first, second and third rounds on defensive players. All seven first-round picks during that time played defense. Seven of the 10 second-round picks were spent on defenders.

Despite committing so many draft picks to defense, the Packers haven’t seen comparable results on the field. Not since the 2010 Super Bowl season have they finished in the top 10 in the NFL in either yards or points allowed. In four of the past six seasons, they ranked in the bottom third of the league in points allowed.