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The Green Bay Packers had as good of a first round as any team in the draft.

They entered the draft with the ninth overall pick and traded up to acquire a second first-round pick (26th overall).

They used those picks to draft Boston College defensive tackle B.J. Raji, who will play nose tackle in their new 3-4 scheme, and USC linebacker Clay Matthews, son (and nephew) of Gary (and Bruce) Matthews.

A report on SI.com falsely identified Raji as someone who failed a drug test at the NFL scouting combine. Per Pete Dougherty of the Green Bay Press-Gazzette, Raji admitted to failing a drug test for marijuana while he was at BC.

“It’s a shame,” Raji said of the false report. “The positive test at BC, I’m a man, that was a mistake I made in the past, which is the past. (Now), it’s the present. I kind of feel what happened with Sports Illustrated(’s Web site), people that know me, they knew that’s not what I’m about. But people that have never met me, their first time hearing about me, that’s the perception they get. That’s the kind of thing that bothered me. The fact I knew it wasn’t true, I had to wait time out until the real results came out.”

Matthews also discussed accusations that he used performance-enhancing drugs. There were false reports that Matthews failed a drug test for steroids at the combine.

“After camp, around 220,” Matthews said of his first season at USC. “I just worked hard. I’d love for the writer of that article to see how I train, and live a day in my shoes, and he can see how I put on this weight. I just heard the other day (linebacker) Aaron Curry was 195 at Wake Forest when he checked in, so people can put on weight if you work hard. It’s not that hard if you have a workman’s mentality.”

Matthews, a "late bloomer” like "my dad and my uncle Bruce," will play OLB in the Packers' 3-4 scheme.