Bo Melton looked like a cornerback project last season. At the Green Bay Packers’ first media availability of OTAs, Wes Hodkiewicz noted that Melton was back in a white jersey at practice, and the team’s official website now lists him as a wide receiver again.

The shift matters because the Packers once tried to solve two roster problems at once, moving Melton from wide receiver to cornerback amid a logjam at receiver and a worrying shortage of depth in the secondary. But the experiment never turned into real game action. Melton played zero snaps on defense last season, while logging 96 snaps on offense, catching four passes for 107 yards and one touchdown.

That usage leaves his role easy to read and hard to overstate. Melton did make an impact on special teams, which helped keep him on the field, but the Packers never trusted him enough to use him in a meaningful game at cornerback even when the need was there. Instead, they kept him in the mix on offense and in the kicking game, where his speed and versatility were more useful than a position switch that never gained traction.

The context around that move explains why it happened in the first place. Green Bay entered last season with too many receivers and not enough corners, so the staff tried to squeeze value out of a player who had already shown he could help in multiple ways. He impressed during training camp in the new role, but the promise stayed mostly in practice and never became a real defensive job.

This offseason changed the math again. The Packers added Benjamin St-Juste, Brandon Cisse and Domani Jackson at cornerback, while Nate Hobbs was the only cornerback mentioned as having left. That makes the secondary deeper than it was a year ago, and it also makes a repeat of Melton’s cornerback experiment look far less likely. The move back to a white jersey is the clearest sign yet that Green Bay is done treating him like an emergency answer on defense.

For Melton, the story now looks simpler. He is back where the Packers list him, back where he has already produced, and back on a roster that no longer needs him to cover for a shortage that has largely been addressed.