A couple of veteran receivers have been impressed with Green Bay Packers rookie Malachi Dupre at OTAs.

Davante Adams and Geronimo Allison both had good things to say about Dupre in an article from Greg Bates of the New Orleans Advocate.

“I’m not going to say it’s a rare trait for rookies, but, as focused as he is, I feel like he’s definitely going to be able to have a great impact,” Adams said. “And I feel like he should have gotten drafted a lot higher based on what I’ve been seeing out there. He’s got great body control.”

Allison, a second-year reciver who could be fighting with Dupre for reps in camp, praised the rookie’s ability to digest Green Bay’s playbook and play fast at early OTA practices.

“He’s picking up on the material fast,” Allison said. “He’s coming in hungry. He’s working hard. You can tell he’s in the playbook. Any opportunities that he gets, he’s going out there and play fast and make that adjustment pretty smoothly right now.”

Once a top high school recruit from New Orleans, Dupre fell to the seventh round of the draft after an up-and-down career at LSU. He caught 98 passes for 1,609 yards and 14 touchdowns from several different starting quarterbacks over three years with the SEC powerhouse.

The Packers snagged Dupre with the 247th pick in the draft.

The start to his NFL career came with a special moment with Aaron Rodgers.

According to Dupre, the veteran receivers warned him about a potential fastball from Rodgers in passing drills. Sure enough, Rodgers’ first throw to Dupre had a little extra on it.

“They were just joking, ‘If you go with Aaron, he’s going to try and show off his arm a bit,’ ” Dupre told Bates. “So they were like, ‘Be ready for a hard ball.’ I remember the first pass he threw me came up on me so fast, I just grabbed it out of the air and got back in line. Randall (Cobb) was like, ‘I told you.'”

Dupre will impress more than just Adams and Allison if he can grab more of Rodgers’ passes out of the air later this summer.